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The growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warning (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] darkan15@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

QR is just image to text, most QR reading apps I have used, show you the QR content before going to the website (or let you disable opening the link directly) so you should be able to check the URL or content and see if the link is legit or not.

But let's be honest most people don't know or don't even bother and that's the real problem.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's also pretty easy to disguise the malicious part. For instance, hxxp://LegitimateBusiness.com@ScamMyAss.com

(Hoping that didn't get blocked as spam)

On many apps, that would truncate somewhere around the .com

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Or just legitbusiness-online-order[.]com

[–] agraves@lm.possum.city 2 points 9 months ago

Thankfully a lot of browsers already detect and block this behavior

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

But let’s be honest most people don’t know or don’t even bother and that’s the real problem.

100% they see the code and assume it can't be mean.