Here's another privacy issue and extra-carefulness is always needed!
There are a lot of people who use QR codes to share different data (also to share bitcoin or other cryptos) from their smartphones and the article below states the risks of using QR codes.
You and Forbes are seriously misleading people here. I hope you reflect and change your thread title.
A quick skim at this article you bring, and here is the REAL content:
asking Google for a "bitcoin qr generator" led to scam websites
Just reading this alone within the article proves:
- Forbes is using a sensationalist header
- You are helping them reproduce the FUD
If you type "bitcoin" in google, chances are you are going to find countless scam and phishing sites. This has nothing to do with:
- Bitcoin
- QR codes
- Security regarding either
Please stop spreading this nonsense, and get to the facts, even if the media you pull the article from does not in the header, READ the content and extract the truth. This is NOT even "news", scammers and phishers have existed even before Bitcoin. And this is not a security warning, but a social one, as it still takes for someone to get convinced to go to one of these sites...
Just how you think most malware gets spread anyway? Most use bait like this...
This is just a mobile equivalent of the Windows copy/paste Bitcoin address swapping malware. So don't install it in the first place...