When we were looking at putting out our Websense
Security Labs predictions for 2012, we knew that mobile threats were going
to be big this year. While we included one prediction on it, there was one
piece that I had thought of, but didn’t include. It’s still a ways away, but
Paul Henry has an excellent write up on “QR
Codes – Leading Lambs To the Slaughter.”
He correctly points out that these “ultimate
url-obfuscators” can be a serious threat down the line.
It’s a good reminder that any applications on workforce
mobile devices need to be properly sandboxed from the operating system. We’ve
already noted in Websense Security Labs research that there are challenges
with certain platforms and there are a number of mobile malware variants,
including Trojans on handhelds.
It’s interesting to think QR codes as threats continue to
evolve in the mobile landscape. What’s funny is as I was writing this, our
Security Labs researches discovered QR codes being used a new way – through
a spam campaign.
What do you think about QR codes?
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