These days, it's easy for anyone to take out their phones and scan a QR Code to see a food menu or to pay a bill. But QR Codes can also make it easy for scammers to access your personal information.

What if a simple scan of a QR code could compromise your most sensitive information? Imagine sitting at a café, scanning a code to access the menu, only to unknowingly hand over your login credentials ...

So, when an attacker sends a fake UCPath payroll notification with a QR code linking to a credential harvesting site, a SEG ...

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Consumer technologies often improve our lives, but they can give cyber-criminals new ways to threaten our privacy and steal our identities. As QR codes continue to grow in popularity, cyber-criminals ...

Scammers can use fake QR codes to steal your money and identity. But what can you do when you need a menu? Jason Steele Expert Reviewer and Contributor As a freelance personal finance writer since ...

Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER, and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. The idea for QR codes was first conceived to help track automotive ...

A newly-discovered malicious package with layers of obfuscation is disguised as a utility library, with malware essentially hiding in plain sight in embedded QR codes. QR codes are ubiquitous these ...