{"id":233636,"date":"2026-04-14T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/patch-tuesday-april-2026-edition-krebs-on-security\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:50:12","slug":"patch-tuesday-april-2026-edition-krebs-on-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/patch-tuesday-april-2026-edition-krebs-on-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition \u2013 Krebs on Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/04\/patch-tuesday-april-2026-edition\/\">Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition \u2013 Krebs on Security<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/04\/patch-tuesday-april-2026-edition\/\">https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/04\/patch-tuesday-april-2026-edition\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-14 17:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"krebsonsecurity.com\">krebsonsecurity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Microsoft<\/strong> today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its <strong>Windows<\/strong> operating systems and related software, including a <strong>SharePoint Server<\/strong> zero-day and a publicly disclosed weakness in <strong>Windows Defender<\/strong> dubbed \u201c<strong>BlueHammer<\/strong>.\u201d Separately, <strong>Google Chrome<\/strong> fixed its fourth zero-day of 2026, and an emergency update for <strong>Adobe Reader<\/strong> nixes an actively exploited flaw that can lead to remote code execution.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Redmond warns that attackers are already targeting CVE-2026-32201, a vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server that allows attackers to spoof trusted content or interfaces over a network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Walters<\/strong>, president and co-founder of <strong>Action1<\/strong>, said CVE-2026-32201 can be used to deceive employees, partners, or customers by presenting falsified information within trusted SharePoint environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis CVE can enable phishing attacks, unauthorized data manipulation, or social engineering campaigns that lead to further compromise,\u201d Walters said. \u201cThe presence of active exploitation significantly increases organizational risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also addressed BlueHammer (CVE-2026-33825), a privilege escalation bug in Windows Defender. According to BleepingComputer, the researcher who discovered the flaw published exploit code for it after notifying Microsoft and growing exasperated with their response. <strong>Will Dormann<\/strong>, senior principal vulnerability analyst at <strong>Tharros<\/strong>, says he confirmed that the public BlueHammer exploit code no longer works after installing today\u2019s patches.<span id=\"more-73440\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Satnam Narang<\/strong>, senior staff research engineer at <strong>Tenable<\/strong>, said April marks the second-biggest Patch Tuesday ever for Microsoft. Narang also said there are indications that a zero-day flaw Adobe patched in an emergency update on April 11 \u2014 CVE-2026-34621 \u2014 has seen active exploitation since at least November 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Barnett<\/strong>, lead software engineer at <strong>Rapid7<\/strong>, called the patch total from Microsoft today \u201ca new record in that category\u201d because it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/04\/patch-tuesday-april-2026-edition\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition \u2013 Krebs on Security https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/04\/patch-tuesday-april-2026-edition\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-14 17:55:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/windupate.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[31,25,27],"class_list":["post-233636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-exploit","tag-phishing","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233638,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233636\/revisions\/233638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}