Attackers targeted a major US energy company with a phishing campaign that overall sent more than 1,000 emails armed with malicious QR codes aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials. The campaign, discovered by Cofense in May, used both PNG image attachments and redirect links associated with Microsoft Bing and well-known business applications — including Salesforce and CloudFlare’s Web3 services — with embedded QR codes, the researchers revealed in a post published today.

Source: Dark Reading: Cloud