Lee Duna to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoThe growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warningarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1154arrow-down1external-linkThe growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warningarstechnica.comLee Duna to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
minus-square@NollijlinkEnglish5•5 months agoIt’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
minus-squareAshley GraveslinkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoThankfully a lot of browsers already detect and block this behavior
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
Or just legitbusiness-online-order[.]com
Thankfully a lot of browsers already detect and block this behavior