If it seems like QR codes are everywhere these days, that's because, well, they are. Thanks to a surge in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, these scannable codes are being used by businesses ...

From insider recruitment and AI-powered investment scams to LLM reconnaissance and QR code phishing, Cybernews’s new security ...

THEY SEEM TO BE JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE. QR CODES OR QUICK RESPONSE CODES ARE SMALL BARCODES THAT WHEN YOU SCAN THEM WITH YOUR PHONE, TAKE YOU JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE. LIKE THIS RANDOM YOUTUBE VIDEO OF ME ...

QR codes that were once seen as a convenient shortcut for checking menus or paying bills have increasingly been turned into weapons. Fake delivery texts, counterfeit payment links and malicious codes ...

QR codes skyrocketed in popularity during the touch-free days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and now they’re everywhere. From menus to forms and posters– who doesn’t like these scannable shortcuts to ...

A dangerous new scam is quietly sweeping across the United States, and all it takes is a quick scan of a QR code to potentially empty your bank account. Cybersecurity experts are warning of a sharp ...

You’ve almost certainly used QR codes before—it’s when you point your phone’s camera at a square barcode to access a menu, a form, or even an app, and then tap on the link that appears. But while most ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A new email scam campaign is using QR codes to get your sensitive information. It's called "quishing" or QR phishing, and security experts say it's when fraudsters launch email ...

Companies go to great lengths to protect sensitive personal and financial information. But as cybercriminals become increasingly sophisticated, scams are on the rise, putting key information at risk ...

Quishing is proving effective, too, with millions of people unknowingly opening malicious websites. In fact, 73% of Americans admit to scanning QR codes without checking if the source is legitimate.