Booking.com has confirmed unauthorized access to its systems that exposed guest reservation data including names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, booking details, and any messages shared with accommodation providers. The company began emailing affected customers over the weekend but did not send alerts via the Booking.com app, creating confusion about whether the notification emails were legitimate. Booking.com says financial data was not accessed. The company has reset PIN numbers for affected reservations. The number of impacted users has not been disclosed, though Booking.com lists 6.8 billion bookings since 2010 across 30+ million properties. Reddit users are already reporting scam messages from people who appear to have real reservation details, suggesting attackers are using the stolen data for targeted phishing. The Register notes this follows a similar 2021 breach pattern where attackers compromised hotel staff logins to access the platform.
The FBI Atlanta Field Office and Indonesian authorities have dismantled the W3LL global phishing platform and arrested its alleged developer. W3LL sold a sophisticated phishing kit designed specifically for bypassing multi-factor authentication on Microsoft 365 accounts using adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques. The platform operated as a phishing-as-a-service ecosystem with its own marketplace, support channels, and licensing model, enabling thousands of business email compromise campaigns targeting corporate Microsoft 365 environments. This is described as the first coordinated international law enforcement action against this platform. Group-IB previously estimated W3LL's tools had been used to compromise over 8,000 Microsoft 365 business accounts.
Adobe has released an emergency security update (APSB26-43, priority-1) to patch CVE-2026-34621, the Adobe Reader zero-day we reported on April 10 that had been exploited since December 2025 via malicious PDF documents. The flaw has now been classified as a prototype pollution vulnerability leading to arbitrary code execution - more severe than the initial fingerprinting and data theft we described. Adobe confirmed it's worse than just information leakage: the underlying bug can achieve full RCE, not just the reconnaissance stage observed in early exploitation. CVSS was initially scored 9.6 but Adobe revised it down to 8.6 after changing the attack vector from Network to Local. EXPMON researcher Haifei Li, who first disclosed the flaw, was credited by Adobe. All users on Windows and macOS should update immediately - Adobe assigned this patch its highest priority rating.
Attackers compromised Nextend's update infrastructure and pushed a fully weaponized version of Smart Slider 3 Pro (3.5.1.35) through the official WordPress and Joomla update channel on April 7. Sites with auto-updates enabled received a multi-layered remote access toolkit disguised as a legitimate plugin update. The malicious version was live for approximately six hours before detection. Patchstack's analysis found: unauthenticated remote command execution via crafted HTTP headers, a second authenticated backdoor with PHP eval and OS command execution, a hidden administrator account (prefixed wpsvc_) invisible in the admin interface, persistent backdoors planted in the active theme's functions.php and wp-config.php, and automated credential theft sent to an external server. Traditional defenses like firewalls, nonce verification, and role-based access controls are irrelevant here because the malicious code arrived through the trusted update channel. Affected sites should be considered fully compromised.
Attackers compromised a backend API on CPUID's website and replaced the official download links for CPU-Z and HWMonitor with trojanized versions containing the STX RAT. The attack lasted approximately six hours between April 9-10, timed to when the lead developer was on holiday. The malicious packages used DLL sideloading - legitimate CPUID executables (still properly signed) were bundled alongside a malicious CRYPTBASE.dll that masquerades as a standard Windows library. When users launched HWMonitor or CPU-Z, the malicious DLL loaded and deployed the RAT entirely in memory, with four independent persistence paths. The primary goal was browser credential theft, specifically targeting Chrome's IElevation COM interface to dump and decrypt saved passwords. The same threat group previously compromised FileZilla downloads in early March 2026. CPUID's signed original files were not tampered with - this was an infrastructure attack redirecting download links to attacker-controlled Cloudflare R2 storage.
An unpatched zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader has been actively exploited since at least November 2025 using booby-trapped PDF documents. The exploit, discovered by EXPMON researcher Haifei Li, works on the latest version of Adobe Reader without any user interaction beyond opening the file. It abuses privileged Acrobat JavaScript APIs (util.readFileIntoStream and RSS.addFeed) to silently harvest local files, OS details, language settings, and the Reader version from the victim's machine, then sends everything to an attacker-controlled server. The PDFs use Russian-language lures related to the oil and gas industry. The attack is a two-stage operation: the first pass fingerprints the target, and if the system meets the attacker's criteria, a follow-on RCE or sandbox escape payload is delivered. Only 5 out of 64 antivirus engines on VirusTotal detected the sample. No CVE has been assigned and no patch is available.
A critical vulnerability in the Ninja Forms File Uploads premium add-on for WordPress allows attackers to upload arbitrary files - including PHP web shells - without any authentication. Over 800,000 WordPress sites use Ninja Forms, and the File Uploads extension is one of its most popular premium add-ons. Successful exploitation gives an attacker full code execution on the web server. No user interaction required - just a crafted request to the file upload endpoint.
A high-severity Docker Engine flaw allows attackers to bypass authorization plugins with a single oversized HTTP request. CVE-2026-34040 (CVSS 8.8) stems from an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-41110 from July 2024 - the original patch missed requests over 1MB, which get forwarded to the Docker daemon without their body, so the AuthZ plugin sees nothing to block while the daemon processes the full malicious payload. The result: a privileged container with root access to the host filesystem, exposing AWS credentials, SSH keys, Kubernetes configs, and everything else on the machine. Critically, Cyera researchers demonstrated that AI coding agents running inside Docker sandboxes can be tricked via prompt injection into crafting the bypass request themselves - no human attacker needed.
ShinyHunters breached Anodot, an AI-based data anomaly detection platform acquired by Glassbox in late 2025, and stole authentication tokens that connected Anodot to its customers' cloud environments. Using those tokens, the attackers accessed Snowflake data warehouses belonging to over a dozen companies and began exfiltrating data last Friday - timed to the Easter/Passover holiday for maximum dwell time. ShinyHunters also attempted to use the stolen tokens against Salesforce instances but were blocked by AI detection. The group is now extorting affected companies, demanding ransom payments to prevent data release. Anodot's customer list includes Puma, SAP, T-Mobile, and UPS. This is the same playbook ShinyHunters used in the 2025 Snowflake campaign and the Gainsight/Salesforce attacks - breach a trusted integration, not the platform itself.
A joint FBI/CISA advisory warns that Iranian-affiliated APT actors are actively targeting internet-exposed Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers across US critical infrastructure - specifically Government Services, Water and Wastewater Systems, and Energy sectors. The attacks have caused financial losses and operational disruptions since March 2026, with the FBI confirming attackers extracted PLC project files and manipulated data displayed on HMI and SCADA systems. The escalation is linked to ongoing hostilities between Iran, the US, and Israel.
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