How Cloudflare Cloud Email Security protects against the evolving threat of QR phishing

Cloudflare outlines the rise of QR-code phishing (quishing), explaining how attackers use QR codes and obfuscation to bypass traditional email defenses and lure users into scanning on less-protected personal devices; it highlights impersonation themes such as Microsoft and DocuSign. The post details Cloudflare’s multi-layered protections—computer-vision heuristics to detect and decode QR codes, deep URL/redirect analysis, decryption and sandboxing, and ML-driven reputation and hunting—and encourages submission of samples to improve detection.