QR codes are a great invention, and make it much easier to access information with your smartphone, or other device, but you don’t actually know a lot of the time where the link they contain is going to take you, and that’s the problem here. Uneducated computer users are the easiest victims for this type of trap.
If the cybercriminal wants to be very sly, they could design an entire website that looks like an official Microsoft one and use it to phish for log-in information and personal data. That in itself is bad enough, but things could get worse: Then the criminal could add a QR code with a link that will take you to an unexpected and malicious website that will install drive-by malware. As Panda Security explains:įirst, a cybercriminal could simulate that your computer has an error, and send your computer a fake 'blue screen of death'. The problem is that QR codes, or rather the links they contain, can be really powerful tools for attackers.
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