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Privacy Tip #461 – Threat Actors Using Malicious QR Codes to Harvest Sensitive Data Stored with Cookies

By Linn Foster Freedman on September 25, 2025
Posted in Privacy Tips

I love it when people come up to me and say they are “wicked paranoid” about QR codes. I have been trying to educate people on the risks of QR codes for years and that gives me satisfaction that I have prevented that person from becoming a victim of a malicious QR code. QR codes…

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