Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition

2026-04-20T07:23:28Z42c67ea9e2773113ecb2df51cc5067f12caa5e5436eff5fe7cc3feb0ae6511c4
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What happened

A series of high-impact security events: Microsoft pushed April Patch Tuesday fixes for 167 vulnerabilities (including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender issue dubbed “BlueHammer”), while Google Chrome and Adobe Reader received emergency fixes for active zero-days and RCE exploits. Separately, Russian military-linked actors abused known flaws in legacy routers to mass-harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from over 18,000 networks without deploying malware. Law enforcement in Germany identified Daniil Shchukin as the operator “UNKN” behind REvil/Gan

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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2026-04-20T07:23:28Z
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Yes

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