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Cybercriminals are finding increasingly cunning ways to scam people into unwittingly divulging their private information, but a team of researchers from the have developed a promising safeguard against one of the latest trends—QR code-based phishing attacks known as “quishing.”

Professor and Assistant Professor of Instruction have engineered a new form of QR codes that can protect smartphone users from these types of attacks by signaling if users are being directed to a safe link or a potential scam. The technology is outlined in a  published in the journal IEEE Security & Privacy.

Gaurav and Irving have been exploring opportunities to commercialize the technology, working with  to file a patent for their codes and securing a  to explore industry applications.