Hacking Using SVG Files to Smuggle QBot Malware onto Windows Systems
Dec 15, 2022Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Endpoint Security Phishing campaigns involving the Qakbot malware are using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email attachments. The new distribution method was spotted by Cisco Talos, which said it identified fraudulent email messages featuring HTML attachments with encoded SVG images that incorporate HTML script tags. HTML…