FBI and Indonesian Police Dismantle W3LL Phishing Network Behind $20M Fraud Attempts

2026-04-13T19:24:18Z3d05f24328521ee5f9cf753706f85fa863eea2ee9e0feb0cb9e8607610a7530a
Adobe AcrobatAndroidCPUIDCVE-2026-34621CVE-2026-39987EngageLab SDKFBIGitHub ActionsGlassWormIDE compromiseIndonesiaMarimoOpenAIRCESTX RATSmart Slider 3W3LLactive exploitationbackdoorcredential theftcrypto wallets riskfraudmacOSphishingsupply chain

What happened

A batch of high-impact security events was reported: U.S. FBI and Indonesian police dismantled the W3LL phishing infrastructure responsible for thousands of credential steals and ~$20M in attempted fraud; Adobe patched an actively exploited Acrobat Reader flaw (CVE-2026-34621, CVSS 8.6); Marimo notebook RCE (CVE-2026-39987, CVSS 9.3) was exploited within 10 hours of disclosure; and multiple supply-chain and distribution compromises were observed (CPUID serving trojanized CPU‑Z/HWMonitor with STX RAT, backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro updates via Nextend servers, malicious Axios library in an OpenA

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