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Fraudsters Are Targeting Everyone Through QR Codes: a Small Mistake Can Open the Way to Sensitive Data

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QR codes have become such a common part of our daily lives that we rarely stop to think about where they will take us before scanning them. Viewing a menu, paying for parking, or opening an event program on our phones is now almost automatic for many. It is precisely this trust and habit that cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting. How to protect yourself?
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QR codes have become such a common part of our daily lives that we rarely stop to think about where they will take us before scanning them. Viewing a menu, paying for parking, or opening an event program on our phones is now almost automatic for many. It is precisely this trust and habit that cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting. How to protect yourself?

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Phishing attacks by QR codes remain a frequent method of theft of authentication data, show a specialty report, and at least 10% of the threats transmitted by e-mail have managed to pass through one or more scanning systems of the type "email gateway", show a specialty report, published on Friday. [...]

QR codes, increasingly used in phishing attacks. Hackers target passwords and cryptocurrency wallets Phishing attacks using QR codes continue to represent a frequent method of theft of authentication data, warn cyber security specialists. According to the HP Threat Insights report, at least 10% of the threats distributed by e-mail and identified by the company's systems have passed one or more security filters for electronic mail. [...] Read QR …

Phishing attacks through QR codes remain a common method by which cyber criminals try to steal user authentication data, shows an HP report. At least 10% of the threats transmitted via email have managed to pass through one or more message scanning systems, according to Agerpres. According to the HP Threat report [...]

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Economedia.ro broke the news on Friday, September 18, 2026.
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