OREANDA-NEWS. February 09, 2015. Compatible with Android and iOS, Kaspersky Lab unveiled a new mobile app, the Kaspersky QR Scanner, designed to read information from quick response (QR) codes, as well as warn users about potentially dangerous links within them.

Method of Deception
A popular method of deception used by cybercriminals is to encrypt a phishing link in a QR code. Since it can be challenging to identify a malicious QR code with the naked eye, cybercriminals can replace pictures with codes online and physically glue their malicious codes over genuine ones on real-world posters.

To address this issue, the solution uses the following approach: scan – check – open. As soon as the QR code becomes visible to the device's camera, the app then responds by checking the information encoded in the code.