But scammers trying to steal personal information have also been using QR codes to direct people to harmful websites that can harvest their data, wrote Alvaro Puig, a consumer education specialist at the Federal Trade Commission, in a blog post Wednesday on the agency's consumer advice page.
John Fokker, head of threat intelligence at Trellix, a cybersecurity company, said in an email on Sunday that the company's advanced research center saw more than 60,000 samples of QR code attacks in the third quarter of 2023.
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