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Protect your organizations against QR code phishing with Defender for Office 365

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UrjaGandhi
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Dec 12, 2023
QR code phishing campaigns have most recently become the fastest growing type of email-based attack. These types of attacks are growing and embed QR code images linked to malicious content directly i...
Updated Jan 19, 2024
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ExMSW4319
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Feb 17, 2024

And then I saw a QR code in a sig block of all places. The item still smelt of spam, but not phish. In any case, a disclaimer action warning message "Do not trust this QR code unless you have independently checked this message" would have done no harm.