Don’t Wait for a Patch. Mitigate RedSun Zero-Day Risk in Microsoft Defender Today
2026-05-01T20:51:50Z•b1d06b53198f75f1b96404c49f982752ecf89c5390e8209c6f4e8fc8916a8ebe
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What happened
This Qualys feed highlights several high‑risk issues from April 2026: a critical RedSun zero‑day local privilege escalation in Microsoft Defender that enables a low‑privileged user to gain SYSTEM access without kernel exploits; Oracle’s April 2026 Critical Patch Update addressing 481 vulnerabilities across product families; Microsoft/Adobe Patch Tuesday fixing 163 vulnerabilities (including eight critical, one publicly disclosed zero‑day, and one actively exploited); and an incident involving an unauthorized OpenClaw autonomous AI agent on a Windows host. Immediate actions called out include:/
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