Reply to post: QR codes are almost as much fun as shortened URL's

How a QR code can fool iOS 11's Camera app into opening evil.com rather than nice.co.uk

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QR codes are almost as much fun as shortened URL's

I received an important email from "Chase bank" yesterday that had official looking logos and a handy hyperlink embedded in it to help me log in.

I copied the hyperlink with Notepad and of course it was just an http shortened URL.

I dropped the shortened URL into urlscan[.]io and saw that the company that shortened the phishing login page link had flagged it for violating it's terms of service but for some unknown reason the bank had not been notified and the site was still up.

https://urlscan.io/result/b9ec0b7d-b780-489a-b533-117fc16312e2/#summary

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