Kaspersky reports a spike in phishing emails containing malicious QR codes. Detections for these jumped from 46,969 in August ...

Phishing attacks using malicious QR codes surged more than fivefold in the second half of 2025 as cybercriminals increasingly ...

As technology evolves, so do scams. The methods become simpler and more ingrained into how we normally operate in the world, and that is pretty scary. This one is not so much “I’m a foreign prince and ...

Cybercriminals are using a new QR code phishing technique that renders the codes using HTML tables in emails to bypass image scanners.

Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data that can be printed and later scanned by a smartphone or other device.

QR codes are the scannable technology of the moment, used across social media, in marketing and advertising campaigns and in the enterprise to quickly share information and drive engagement. But ...

On Tuesday, a Reddit user named “nhciao” posted a series of artistic QR codes created using the Stable Diffusion AI image-synthesis model that can still be read as functional QR codes by smartphone ...

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