Scammers Hide Harmful Links in QR Codes to Steal Your Information¶
Federal Trade Commission. (2023). Scammers Hide Harmful Links in QR Codes to Steal Your Information.
Cited by¶
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Mechanisms¶
- QR Verification Code
- Its characteristic failure is that a QR code is just a picture and trivially replaced: a fraudster who pastes their own sticker over a genuine code — a tactic now common enough to be named "quishing" — sends scanners to a look-alike page that reports whatever the attacker wants.
This sourceWarns that scammers can cover legitimate QR codes with their own and direct scanners to convincing spoof sites.
- Its characteristic failure is that a QR code is just a picture and trivially replaced: a fraudster who pastes their own sticker over a genuine code — a tactic now common enough to be named "quishing" — sends scanners to a look-alike page that reports whatever the attacker wants.
Verification¶
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