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Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Exposes WhatsApp Web Data to Malicious Sites

A critical flaw in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension, affecting over 314 million users, could have allowed malicious websites to access your WhatsApp Web session - but thankfully, the vulnerability has been patched. The security issue, tracked as CVE-2026-48294, highlights the importance of keeping your browser extensions up to date.

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Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Exposes WhatsApp Web Chats

A newly discovered vulnerability in the Adobe Acrobat extension for Chrome, known as HermeticReader, could allow hackers to access your WhatsApp Web conversations with just one visit to a malicious webpage. No clicks, logins, or cookies required - making it a shockingly easy exploit to carry out.

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