245% Increase in SVG Files Used to Obfuscate Phishing Payloads

• March 12th, 2025

245% Increase in SVG Files Used to Obfuscate Phishing Payloads

A KnowBe4 Threat Labs Publication
Authors: James Dyer and Cameron Sweeney

The KnowBe4 Threat Research team has observed a sustained increase in the use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files to obfuscate malicious payloads.