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The growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warning (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 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 2 points 11 months ago

Or just legitbusiness-online-order[.]com

[–] agraves@lm.possum.city 2 points 11 months ago

Thankfully a lot of browsers already detect and block this behavior