InfoSec News Nuggets 10/18/2024
From QR to compromise: The growing “quishing” threat Security professionals are always on the lookout for evolving threat techniques. The Sophos X-Ops team recently investigated phishing attacks targeting several of our employees, one of whom was tricked into giving up their information. The attackers used so-called quishing (a portmanteau of “QR code” and “phishing”). QR codes are a machine-readable encoding mechanism that can encapsulate a wide variety of information, from lines of text to binary…