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Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside svg files
Running JavaScript from inside an image? What could possibly go wrong?
“This Trojan, also written in Javascript, silently clicks a ‘Like’ button for a Facebook page without the user’s knowledge or consent, in this case the adult posts we found above,” Malwarebytes researcher Pieter Arntz wrote. In 2023, pro-Russian hackers used an .svg tag to exploit a cross-site scripting bug in Roundcube, a server application that was used by more than 1,000 webmail services and millions of their end users. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.
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