{"id":14843,"date":"2025-09-24T02:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/?p=14843"},"modified":"2025-09-24T02:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:02:26","slug":"qr-codes-become-the-vehicle-for-malware-in-new-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/?p=14843","title":{"rendered":"QR codes become the vehicle for malware in new technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"remove_no_follow\">\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<section class=\"wp-block-bigbite-multi-title\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>QR codes are ubiquitous these days, as they are an easy way to deliver marketing content or direct users to websites and apps.<\/p>\n<p>They have also become a hiding place for malicious code.<\/p>\n<p>A threat research team at cybersecurity company Socket has discovered what it called  \u201ca sophisticated backdoor mechanism\u201d that, when incorporated into an enterprise\u2019s app or website, steals passwords stored in visitors\u2019 cookies via code embedded in QR codes.<\/p>\n<p>T<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QR codes are ubiquitous these days, as they are an easy way to deliver marketing content or direct users to websites and apps. They have also become a hiding place for malicious code. A threat research team at cybersecurity company Socket has discovered what it called \u201ca sophisticated backdoor mechanism\u201d that, when incorporated into an enterprise\u2019s app or website, steals passwords stored in visitors\u2019 cookies&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/newestek.com\/?p=14843\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","is-cat-link-borders-light is-cat-link-rounded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}