Police say four car parks were targeted by scammers placing stickers with fake QR code payments.
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.
City officials are warning parking customers in downtown Asheville about a scam involving unauthorized QR code stickers ...
QR codes can be very handy, allowing you to quickly pull up information about parking payment systems, details about gifts you've been sent, and even menus at restaurants you visit. But they also have ...
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 ...
The scam begins as a typical brushing scam, but fraudsters use Amazon branding to deceive recipients. You don’t remember ...
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 ...
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 ...
Letters use QR codes to direct victims to phishing websites. Ledger has warned customers never to share their seed phrases. More than four months after Ledger first flagged the tactic, scammers ...
You might be used to receiving scam emails or texts, but did you know that you can also get scammed through a QR code? This increasingly common form of scam is referred to as quishing – and it's been ...