Sophos says the use of SVG files in phishing is on the rise SVG files bypass email protection and can display malicious hyperlinks The researchers shared a few tips on how to stay safe Hackers are ...

A sophisticated new phishing attack was spotted in the wild ... This attachment, however, is a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file which, when run, triggers the infection sequence.

It’s worth noting that the use of SVG files inside HTML containing base64-obfuscated code isn’t new. The same technique was observed in malspam delivering Qbot malware in December 2022.