{"id":3939,"date":"2025-04-03T18:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/microsoft-warns-of-tax-themed-email-attacks-using-pdfs-and-qr-codes-to-deliver-malware\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:14:02","slug":"microsoft-warns-of-tax-themed-email-attacks-using-pdfs-and-qr-codes-to-deliver-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/microsoft-warns-of-tax-themed-email-attacks-using-pdfs-and-qr-codes-to-deliver-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns of Tax-Themed Email Attacks Using PDFs and QR Codes to Deliver Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft is warning of several phishing campaigns that are leveraging tax-related themes to deploy malware and steal credentials.<br \/>\n&#8220;These campaigns notably use redirection methods such as URL shorteners and QR codes contained in malicious attachments and abuse legitimate services like file-hosting services and business profile pages to avoid detection,&#8221; Microsoft said in a report shared with The\u00a0Microsoft is warning of several phishing campaigns that are leveraging tax-related themes to deploy malware and steal credentials.<br \/>\n&#8220;These campaigns notably use redirection methods such as URL shorteners and QR codes contained in malicious attachments and abuse legitimate services like file-hosting services and business profile pages to avoid detection,&#8221; Microsoft said in a report shared with The\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft is warning of several phishing campaigns that are leveraging tax-related themes to deploy malware and steal credentials. &#8220;These campaigns notably use redirection methods such as URL shorteners and QR codes contained in malicious attachments and abuse legitimate services like file-hosting services and business profile pages to avoid detection,&#8221; Microsoft said in a report shared&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/microsoft-warns-of-tax-themed-email-attacks-using-pdfs-and-qr-codes-to-deliver-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Warns of Tax-Themed Email Attacks Using PDFs and QR Codes to Deliver Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}