Malicious Actors Utilizing QR Codes to Deploy Phishing Pages to Mobile Devices

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						<p>Author: Kian Buckley Maher&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />SEG Bypassed: Microsoft&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />The Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) has noted an increase in the number of malicious emails utilising this attack vector. In an attempt to bypass traditional file and text detection software, QR codes provide threat actors with a different tactic to encode malicious URLs. &nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />While it is possible to open QR codes on a computer, they are most conveniently accessed using a smart phone …