C-Suite Receives 42x More QR Code Attacks Than Average Employee, According to New Research from Abnormal Security
QR code attacks are the latest evolution of traditional phishing, where threat actors use social engineering to manipulate targets into interacting with malicious QR codes.
- QR code attacks are the latest evolution of traditional phishing, where threat actors use social engineering to manipulate targets into interacting with malicious QR codes.
- In doing so, they may unknowingly provide details that enable the attacker to compromise accounts and launch further attacks.
- While every employee is at risk, C-Suite executives were 42 times more likely to receive QR code attacks than the average employee.
- In the research report, Abnormal also identified key themes that cybercriminals are using to execute QR code phishing attacks.