In December, developers at Discord – a voice and text chat app widely used by the gaming community – announced the launch of a QR code feature that enables users to log into the desktop web client using their phone, by scanning the code that appears on-screen. Login window reduced to two minutes, but is this enough to combat fraudsters?ĭiscord has made some changes to its QR code login system following reports that the mechanism is being abused by scammers trying to gain access to users’ accounts.
