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QR Code Malware

by Mahara Adhe
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I was reading an article today about QR Codes and possible Malware distribution. Has anyone had any experiences with this? What are you guys doing to differentiate your QR Codes?

"One that I'm sure will attract the attention of malicious actors will be the incipient development of QR based payment systems, such as we're seeing from LevelUp, Kuapay, and Paypal," Levy says. "As our mobile devices and our wallets continue to converge through such technologies as near field communications (NFC), Bump, and QR, malware authors are bound to prefer these very direct paths to the money. Inventors and authors of these types of services and applications must be held to a very high--perhaps even highly regulated--standard. After all, these devices and apps are well on the road to becoming our new currency."

In the interim, though, users and organizations can start protecting themselves from the most basic of QR code attacks by giving themselves some visibility into what they scan. It is all a matter of choosing the right scanning application for the phone.

"Only use QR code reader software that allows the user to confirm the action to be taken i.e. visit a website link," Henry says. "If you do not know and trust the link, cancel the action."
There's a QR Code Safety ebook idea for SOMEONE..lol..

You can check the article out here (not my site, but I thought it was interesting.)
#code #malware
  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Good article. I don't think I'm even close to using my cell phone for payments. I think I'll probably stick to my debit card for a long time.
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    • Profile picture of the author MacS09
      Thanks for this article. (I hopped over and read the whole thing.)

      Just link the growth of Android with known malware attacks on smartphones such as background texting to premium numbers and that to redirects of QR Codes (which small business is properly protected against such attacks?), and you have the makings of a pretty horrible nightmare scenario.

      Haven't seen this menitoned in any of the WSOs...

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