Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition

2026-04-18T07:23:28Z945d796691bd50a43900e5b4f516ac21530074b246716a0f79838bf46206e386
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What happened

April 2026 security roundup: Microsoft released patches for 167 vulnerabilities including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender flaw dubbed “BlueHammer”; Google Chrome and Adobe Reader also pushed emergency fixes for actively exploited zero-days and RCE flaws. Separately, Russia-linked actors exploited flaws in older consumer/business routers to mass-harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from more than 18,000 networks without malware. Law enforcement disrupted four large IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad), Germany unmasked the alleged REv­

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