FBI Warns North Korean Hackers Using Malicious QR Codes in Spear-Phishing

The digital landscape has a new, insidious threat that cleverly bypasses your deskbound defenses. In a stark advisory, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that North Korean state-sponsored hackers are increasingly using malicious QR codes in targeted spear-phishing campaigns, a technique now dubbed “quishing.” This attack vector is particularly dangerous because it shifts the target from your secured work computer to your personal, often less-protected, mobile device.