Watch out for quishing, or phishing through dodgy QR codes, the latest scam catching people unawares - costing some thousands ...

Scammers have used QR codes to steal personal information by imitating legitimate companies or sending deceptive emails and text messages, the Federal Trade Commission said. By Amanda Holpuch QR codes ...

Quishing is a new scam combining QR codes and phishing, where fraudsters use malicious QR codes to trick individuals into ...

Figures from Action Fraud show that 784 reports of quishing were made to the fraud reporting service between April 2024 and ...

New phishing campaigns attempt to evade detection by constructing rogue QR codes with special ASCII characters and load phishing pages locally using the local blob URL feature in browsers. Attackers ...

Motorists are being tricked into handing over hundreds of pounds to fraudsters in a QR code scam at British car parks. An urgent warning has been issued over the fake QR codes that have been spotted ...

That would be a big mistake. These codes can easily take you to any URL with a quick tap, and that's a dangerous access point ...

Security researchers at Barracuda Networks have discovered two novel QR code phishing (quishing) techniques involving splitting malicious QR codes into two parts or embedding them into legitimate ones ...