Nowadays the use of QR codes has increased swiftly, as we all know that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought many remarkable changes among peoples.
Because of this pandemic situation, people are using mobile quick-response (QR) codes in daily life, these QR codes are very handy for both work and personal use.
After the declaration of work from home, people started using all hand devices that will help them to connect to business-critical systems and applications.
However, a new report of Ivanti pronounced that they have carried a survey of 4157 users from all over the world like China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.
After conveying the survey, Ivanti came to know that there are 83% of users who have used the QR codes for the very first time.
But users don’t know that the increase in the usage of QR codes will also open up many opportunities for different threat actors. And the threat actors might use those opportunities to steal corporate data, they can also infiltrate mobile devices with the help of QR codes.
However, the threat actors always try to find different occasions so that they can carry out their planned operations and eventually wreaking destruction on businesses.
The capabilities of malicious QR codes are mentioned below:-
After knowing all the details regarding the QR codes, Ivanti claimed that there are some preventions that will help the users to keep alerted and safe from malicious QR codes or QR cyberattacks.
Here are the preventions mentioned below:-
All these QR code threats are increasing day by day, and such opportunities will undoubtedly be used more and more by the attackers to infiltrate devices and steal many corporate data from the devices.
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