Blog Security Research Akamai’s Perspective on April’s Patch Tuesday 2024 Microsoft doesn’t take a holiday. April 2024’s Patch Tuesday has 147 total CVEs, with three critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Defender for IoT. Happy Eid-al-Fitr, Happy Easter, and Happy Passover. April is traditionally the month of holidays — and if CVEs are gifts, Microsoft is in the holiday spirit. April 2024’s Patch Tuesday has a total of 147 CVEs, and three of them are critical in Microsoft Defender for IoT . There was also an in-the-wild CVE : a Microsoft certificate being used to sign malicious payloads. \r\n In this blog post, we’ll assess how critical the vulnerabilities are, and how commonplace the affected applications and services are, to provide you with a realistic perspective on the bugs that were fixed. Be on the lookout for these insights in the days after every Patch Tuesday. \r\n This is an ongoing report and we’ll add more information to it as our research progresses — stay tuned!…