Thread about malicious SVG files in phishing attacks
The “scalable vector graphics” format is designed to draw pictures on a computer screen using human-readable instructions, rather than binary data. That means the picture can stretch or shrink with little to no loss of fidelity, unlike a “raster” bitmapped image.
re: Thread about malicious SVG files in phishing attacks
But most computers don’t have a dedicated graphics tool install that can read and edit .svg files, so they default to opening in the browser, and because you can add things like your own HTML code into them, opening an #SVG poses the same risks as opening an .html file.
