U.S. Energy Giant Falls Victim to Unprecedented QR Code Phishing Attack
U.S. Energy Giant Falls Victim to Unprecedented QR Code Phishing Attack
QR codes are free and easy to read and have now been used in an email Phishing attack on a US energy giant.
The attack is based on the fact that corporate and private email protection systems normally permit jpg, and pdf files in without checking these normally benign files for malicious QR codes.
QR codes themselves are embedded hyperlinks that direct users to websites, in this attack the link went to Bing, Salesforce and Cloudflare’s Web3 services – all of which could be legitimate links.
Normal QR attacks involving placing malicious QR codes where people would expect to see a QR code, on product leaflets, parking meters, billboards etc.
More information at (Countermark website)
Link to the full article about the attack (Cyber Daily website)
Photo Credit to Cyber Daily website
