{"id":3046,"date":"2025-04-04T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/microsoft-warns-of-tax-themed-email-html\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T07:03:27","slug":"microsoft-warns-of-tax-themed-email-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/microsoft-warns-of-tax-themed-email-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns of Tax-Themed Email Attacks Using PDFs and QR Codes to Deliver Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Microsoft Warns of Tax-Themed Email Attacks Using PDFs and QR Codes to Deliver Malware<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Microsoft 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<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/04\/microsoft-warns-of-tax-themed-email.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Warns of Tax-Themed Email Attacks Using PDFs and QR Codes to Deliver Malware Microsoft 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}