quishing
/ˈkwɪʃɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Phishing by means of a QR code (to link to a malicious site, compromise a user account, etc.).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Quishing allowed hackers to exfiltrate data from his bank accounts."
- "The US Federal Trade Commission, as well as multiple local authorities across the UK, also warned this year about a specific kind of “quishing” scam targeting drivers, including cases where stickers directing users to fraudulent sites have been placed on top of legitimate QR codes used to pay for parking."
- "Microsoft said the WhatsApp campaign appeared to have been wound down in November but the shift in tactics by Star Blizzard underlined the unit’s tenacity in using spear phishing – the term for targeting specific individuals or groups with malicious emails – to try to access sensitive information. The increasingly popular practice of using QR codes by cybercriminals is called “quishing” among the cybersecurity community."