Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition

2026-04-20T19:23:35Z1d9d6e4d605271d77c4f1327185a8c63a1c0c4af544fea7d62045fffb79fade3
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What happened

KrebsOnSecurity aggregated April–March 2026 cyber news: Microsoft shipped fixes for 167 vulnerabilities (including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender issue dubbed “BlueHammer”); Google Chrome and Adobe Reader received emergency zero-day/actively exploited RCE fixes. Separately, actors linked to Russian military intelligence exploited known router flaws to harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from over 18,000 networks without deploying malware. Law enforcement disrupted four massive IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had infected >

Why it matters

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2026-04-20T19:23:35Z
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