Phishing scams using QR codes – quishing – are being used in new ways to target unsuspecting victims in both the UK and Ireland.

Almost £3.5 million has been lost due to QR code scams with more than 780 reports of ‘quishing’ made to the UK's national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime between April 2024 and ...

Nearly a third of all local authorities and over a dozen hospitals in the UK have had their car parks targeted by so-called “quishing” scammers, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) can ...

08:45, Mon, Jul 7, 2025 Updated: 08:45, Mon, Jul 7, 2025 Every driver in the UK is at risk of being “scammed” at car parks across the country this summer, according to experts. Rhydian Jones ...

Some 7% said they had engaged with QR codes, while the use of websites offering illegal cannabis products almost doubled from 6% in 2022 to around one in ten (11%) in 2024.