Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoThe growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warningarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkThe growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warningarstechnica.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square8fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareNollij@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoIt’s also pretty easy to disguise the malicious part. For instance, hxxp://[email protected] (Hoping that didn’t get blocked as spam) On many apps, that would truncate somewhere around the .com
minus-squareAshley Graves@lm.possum.citylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThankfully a lot of browsers already detect and block this behavior
minus-squarephx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoOr just legitbusiness-online-order[.]com
It’s also pretty easy to disguise the malicious part. For instance, hxxp://[email protected]
(Hoping that didn’t get blocked as spam)
On many apps, that would truncate somewhere around the .com
Thankfully a lot of browsers already detect and block this behavior
Or just legitbusiness-online-order[.]com