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WhatsApp Web chats exposed by Adobe’s Acrobat extension flaw
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">HermeticReader is the name given to a recently disclosed vulnerability in the Adobe Acrobat PDF extension for Chrome, tracked as <a href="https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48294" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">CVE-2026-48294</a>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://guard.io/labs/hermeticreader---the-vulnerability-that-turn
MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Browser ExtensionsT1176.001
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-48294cve
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48294url
- https://guard.io/labs/hermeticreader---the-vulnerability-that-turned-adobe-300m-install-extension-into-a-full-whatsapp-takeoverurl
- 26.5.2.3ipv4
- 26.5.2.2ipv4