The Countermark Blog

QR Code Scams: Nancy: “… they take you directly to a place, a website, and you don’t really know where your goin’ till you get there Hank”.
1st September 2023Nancy: “… they take you directly to a place, a website, and you don’t really know where your goin’ till you get there Hank”. (link to soundcloud / Radio Worcester) America’s Better Business Bureau is running an awareness campaign on North American radio and TV warning people about malicious QR codes and how […]
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U.S. Energy Giant Falls Victim to Unprecedented QR Code Phishing Attack
25th August 2023U.S. Energy Giant Falls Victim to Unprecedented QR Code Phishing Attack QR codes are free and easy to read and have now been used in an email Phishing attack on a US energy giant. The attack is based on the fact that corporate and private email protection systems normally permit jpg, and pdf files in […]
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Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court
5th July 2023Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court Christian website designer says she received email request from same-sex couple but ‘author’ says he did not send it – and is not gay. The Countermark team know it hard to check if a document is genuine – that is why we […]
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How do you know if someone has been checking the secure document you created?
23rd June 2023ChatGPT and Me : – how do you know if someone has been checking the secure document you created? Me:- Use the Countermark Logs Page to search for a single Countermark, or a group of Countermarks. You can see when it was checked, and according to GDPR settings, where it was scanned and by whom. […]
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