Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition

2026-04-16T13:23:38Zc6b00573091806d052e3f9041f4e9283cc1dcfbb1a3a511bc361509d717f33cf
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What happened

KrebsOnSecurity roundup covering multiple high-impact incidents: Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday addressed 167 vulnerabilities including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender flaw nicknamed “BlueHammer”; Google fixed a fourth Chrome zero-day of 2026 and Adobe issued an emergency Reader RCE patch. Separately, Russian military-linked actors exploited known router vulnerabilities to harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from over 18,000 networks. Law enforcement doxxed Daniil Shchukin (“UNKN”), alleged former leader of REvil/GandCrab. New destructive and勒

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