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Apr 09 2026 Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets

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Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.... [...]

Posted by Carly Page on Thu 09 April 2026 in The Register.

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