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How criminals use QR codes to launch attacks
In the age of enhanced tech capabilities such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the techies foresee heightened aggression in the deployment of the attacks, noting that scams will become more targeted, more convincing and harder to spot.
As the cyber threats landscape continues to evolve and in the face of new tech-driven attacks, industry experts are now sounding the alarm over risks hidden behind scannable Quick Response (QR) codes.
The pundits at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky now say that the popular web access codes are increasingly becoming a convenient tool of exploitation by cybercriminals, who have already rolled out a variety of QR-based attack schemes.
