QR Code Verification: Enhancing Digital Payment Security in Malaysia
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: These have revolutionized digital payments, from being an essential tool in the retail and finance industries to those involving hospitality. However, such rapidity in the proliferation of QR code-based transactions has thoroughly exposed the users to innumerable perils from the perspective of cybersecurity: phishing scams, malware distribution, data breaches, etc. The present paper, therefore, discusses a robust verification application for QR code verification, capable of mitigating these loopholes to provide extra security regarding digital transactions. It uses the latest verification mechanisms in identifying and neutralizing malicious links while remaining within the bounds of Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act. User-friendly and with the most stringent security measures, this invention creates trust and confidence in the use of QR-based payment systems to further the larger goals of Malaysia in its efforts to develop its digital economy. The critical solution really needed in research to demonstrate how it is going to have considerable effects in changing the face of cybersecurity within the digital payment ecosystem.
Authors: Muhammad Alif Asyraf Alkhaired Abdul Razak, Nur Aida Najwa Norhisham, Ummi Nur Syafiqah Hassan Basri, Yusliza Muhamad Yunus
Institutions: Universiti Teknologi MARA System, Universiti Teknologi MARA
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6930761730
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