LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel extends the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) alert on QR code hijacking. We’re told criminals are sticking malicious QR codes on top of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team has an alert about QR code cons: fake codes being created to rip you off. QR codes are everywhere. You can quickly scan them with your phone to read a restaurant menu, ...

QR codes have become a go-to staple for contactless transactions of all sorts during the pandemic, and the FBI is warning cybercriminals are capitalizing on their lax security to steal data and money, ...

IN 12 INVESTIGATES A TROUBLING CYBERSECURITY TREND. THE FBI IS CALLING MALICIOUS AND YOU MAY NOT EVEN KNOW YOU’VE BEEN ATTACKED FORT HATCHET DETAILS HOW SIMPLY ORDERING FOOD FROM A RESTAURANT COULD ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — The FBI has been warning the ...

The FBI is warning that cybercriminals are tampering with Quick Response (QR) codes in order to steal the personal and financial information of unsuspecting customers. The checkerboard barcodes can be ...

Beware what you scan. Criminals may be watching. Cybercriminals could use altered Quick Response (QR) codes to steal personal and financial information of unsuspecting customers, the FBI warns. QR ...

QR codes that were once seen as a convenient shortcut for checking menus or paying bills have increasingly been turned into weapons. Fake delivery texts, counterfeit payment links and malicious codes ...

The ad generated so much traffic that it crashed Coinbase’s app, which, as I wrote previously, is a bad thing when you’re trying to convince people they should trust you with their financial assets.

Scammers are increasingly exploiting QR codes to trick people into revealing financial information or installing malicious software on their devices. The FBI has recently issued a warning about a ...