Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition
2026-05-18T13:23:30Z•12e2a456e08346a13be3d55307b27965336e6482cc12fd8276cc1f6a3d312d5b
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What happened
KrebsOnSecurity roundup covering multiple high-impact incidents and large vulnerability sweeps. Major stories: an ongoing data-extortion attack hit Canvas (login page defaced; threat to leak data on ~275 million students/faculty across ~9,000 institutions); Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla and Oracle pushed unusually large Patch Tuesday updates (April/May fixes include multiple zero-days and a SharePoint zero-day/Windows Defender issue dubbed “BlueHammer”); Russia-linked actors exploited older routers to harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from ~18,000 networks; U.S./international执
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- 2026-05-18T13:23:30Z
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