QR Codes: A cool Super Bowl ad or another way for hackers to take over your accounts?
QR codes have been around for a long time. And when Coinbase aired a Super Bowl ad that featured nothing but a QR code, over 20 million people scanned it within 60 seconds. If you're not careful, these codes could be used to download malware, send users to phishing pages, take over your WhatsApp accounts and more.