As mobile marketers latch onto the convenience and cool-factor of QR codes, hackers are starting to take advantage of these square, scannable bar codes as a new way to distribute malware. Like all mobile attack vectors, it is a new frontier that security researchers say is not extremely prevalent, but which has a lot of potential to wreak havoc if mobile developers and users stand by unaware.
via QR Code Malware Picks Up Steam – Dark Reading.
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