Seqrite Warns of SVG File Abuse Targeting Indian Enterprises
A file format long treated as harmless design content is now being quietly weaponised in enterprise attacks. Seqrite, the enterprise security arm of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, has found that SVG file abuse is emerging as a stealth attack vector in India, enabling attackers to hide malicious JavaScript, trigger phishing redirects, and slip past conventional email and web filters.
The warning is grounded in findings from Seqrite’s India Cyber Threat Report 2026, which recorded 265.52 million detections across more than 8 million endpoints, averaging 505 detections every minute. The report shows that Indian threat actors are increasingly moving toward lower-noise, higher-persistence techniques, with fileless execution, living-off-the-land binaries, and disguised delivery mechanisms becoming more common across enterprise environments.
The report specifically flags SVG-based abuse under its emerging threat forecast, noting that attackers are now embedding JavaScript or redirection logic inside vector graphics to bypass traditional filters and sandboxing. In one...
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