Skip to content ZenGo – Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Wallet The first keyless crypto wallet Menu Security About Us Blog Research Help Jobs Contact security Tal Be'ery August 29, 2019 Tweet Facebook As part of our ongoing research in the blockchain areas, we set our focus on QR code, as we are adding QR code support for ZenGo wallet soon. As we always do, we explored also the security aspects of this feature and found some reports on QR related scams . We wanted to check how prevalent this phenomenon and to our surprise, we found out that 4 out of the first 5 results presented when querying Google were leading to scammers site. These sites generate a QR code that encodes an address controlled by the scammers, instead of the one requested by the user, thus directing all payments for this QR code to the scammers. To protect users, we had shared the technical...