QR Code Security: Mitigating the Issue of Quishing (QR Code Phishing)
Godwin Awuah Amoah, Hayfron-Acquah J.B.
Abstract
To accommodate new technologies and communication methods, cybersecurity must advance.For security experts, especially those working in fields like digital forensics, new technologies provide both opportunities and challenges.New technologies like smartphones and new ways of disseminating information, like social media, might provide difficulties.Use of QR (Quick Response) codes is one of the rapidly expanding interface technologies.This paper explores privacy issues that might arise with QR codes and other information security-harming technologies.Additionally, it emphasizes the necessity for experts in the field to solve security concerns raised by the increasing use of QR codes.Each URL's words were extracted using a count vectorizer, and the URLs that were part of the QR code were used to obtain features.To distinguish between legitimate and phishing URLs, traits and words were tokenized, and naive Bayesian machine learning classification techniques were used in a recursive loop alongside logistic regression.A very accurate model was created, aiding in the reduction of quishing behaviour.