QR Code Phishing Soars 587%: Users Falling Victim to Social Engineering Scams

Check Point and multiple vendors report a sharp surge in QR-code-based phishing campaigns (quishing/QRLJacking) — roughly 20,000 instances observed in two weeks and a reported 587% monthly increase — where attackers use conditional redirects, multi-layer obfuscation, and social engineering to harvest credentials and deliver malware; defenders are advised to deploy layered protections (email, browser, mobile, anti-malware, post-delivery) and AI-assisted decoding to mitigate these threats.