URL Protect - Enhanced Attachment Scanning for QR Codes - Aug 2025

Service Update

Availability August 11th - 15th, 2025
Product(s) Targeted Threat Protection, URL Protect
Who's affected Administrators

Overview

Mimecast is pleased to announce enhancements to Attachment Scanning for embedded QR codes.

What's changing

Mimecast scans attachments for embedded QR codes as part of its advanced URL Protect feature.

  • If a QR code is found within an attachment, Mimecast will extract the QR code and analyze its content.
  • If the extracted QR code contains an embedded URL, that URL will be extracted, and sent for further scanning and evaluation in accordance with your configured URL Protect policies.

Deployment Schedule

Region Date
Canada (CA) August 11th
United Kingdom (UK) August 11th - August 14th
United States (US) August 11th - August 14th
South Africa (ZA) August 12th
Australia August 14th
Germany (DE) August 14th
Jersey August 14th
United States (USB) August 14th

Recommended actions

Nothing needs to be done as a result of these changes.

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