Slashdot Mirror
Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise
New submitter EliSowash writes "Malware developers are increasingly using QR Codes as an attack vector. 'The big problem is that the QR code to a human being is nothing more than "that little square with a bunch of strange blocks in it." There's no way to tell what is behind that QR code.' The advice we've always given to the computer user community is 'don't click a link in an email if you don't know who it's from or where it goes' — so how do we protect unsuspecting users from QR codes, where you can't see the destination at all?"
Does anyone have a QR code to a Rick Roll?
A while back, a friend of mine at a university printed up several dozen flyers with a QR code pointing to LemonParty and posted them around campus. Hilarity ensued as he took pictures of people's reactions as they scanned them.
"liberty and justice for all those who can afford it"
I made no such thing mere mortal!
Sure, the morans will click the links but what about the morons?
Rule 1 don't click on URLs to unknown websites ESPECIALLY at work! :)
We have this woman at work that does that. One day, I happened to be helping her with something. She was googling around, and the second link was www.foo.bar.cn. It was kinda what she was looking for, and before I could say 'No', she clicked it. It was blocked by the proxy.
"Um...you probably don't want to go there."
'Why not?'
"It's some random site in China"
'How do you know?'
"ummm...the CN at the end = China"
'Oh, I never pay attention to that'
"Well, seeing as you're on a DoD computer and network, you might want to start paying attention to that stuff"