April’s Patch Tuesday Brings Record Number of Fixes

Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday addresses a record 147 vulnerabilities across Windows and related software, including several important and three critical flaws; Microsoft and third parties confirmed two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-21412 and CVE-2024-26234) were exploited in the wild. The report calls out specific high‑risk issues such as an Outlook spoofing bug (CVE-2024-20670), Azure search credential leakage (CVE-2024-29063), and a Windows SmartScreen bypass (CVE-2024-29988), and notes numerous Secure Boot fixes and Adobe patches; users are advised to back up data and apply updates promptly.