QR Code Applications and Technologies

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• ALFA: A Safe-by-Design Approach to Mitigate Quishing Attacks Launched via Fancy QR Codes

  Muhammad Wahid Akram, Keshav Sood, Muneeb Ul Hassan, Dhananjay Thiruvady · 13 January 2026

  Phishing with Quick Response (QR) codes is termed as Quishing. The attackers exploit this method to manipulate individuals into revealing their confidential data. Recently, we see the colorful and fancy representations of QR codes, the 2D matrix of QR codes which does not reflect a typical mixture o…

• Compression of executable QR codes or sQRy for Industry: an example for Wi-Fi access points

  Stefano Scanzio, Gabriele Formis, Pietro Chiavassa, Lukasz Wisniewski, Gianluca Cena · 2 December 2025

  Executable QR codes, or sQRy, is a technology dated 2022 that permits to include a runnable program inside a QR code, enabling interaction with the user even in the absence of an Internet connection. sQRy are enablers for different practical applications, including network equipment configuration, d…

• Barcode and QR Code Object Detection: An Experimental Study on YOLOv8 Models

  Kushagra Pandya, Heli Hathi, Het Buch, Ravikumar R N, Shailendrasinh Chauhan, Sushil Kumar Singh · 1 December 2025

  This research work dives into an in-depth evaluation of the YOLOv8 (You Only Look Once) algorithm's efficiency in object detection, specially focusing on Barcode and QR code recognition. Utilizing the real-time detection abilities of YOLOv8, we performed a study aimed at enhancing its talent in swif…