Microsoft fixes 169 vulnerabilities including exploited SharePoint CVE-2026–32201, prompting CISA remediation by April 28, 2026.
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Microsoft pays $2.3M for cloud and AI flaws at Zero Day Quest
Microsoft has awarded $2.3 million to security researchers after receiving nearly 700 submissions during this year’s Zero Day Quest hacking contest.
Tom Gallagher, Vice President of Engineering at Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), said that over 80 flaws found during the live event at Microsoft’s Redmond campus were high-impact cloud and AI security vulnerabilities.
“During the 2026 live hacking event, Microsoft partnered with the global security research community, representing more than 20 countries and a wide range of professional backgrounds, from high school students to college professors,” Gallagher said.
WordPress plugin suite hacked to push malware to thousands of sites
More than 30 WordPress plugins in the EssentialPlugin package have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them.
A malicious actor planted the backdoor code last year but only recently started pushing it to users via updates, generating spam pages and causing redirects, as per the instructions received from the command-and-control (C2) server.
The compromise affects plugins with hundreds of thousands of active installations and was spotted by Austin Ginder, the founder of managed WordPress hosting provider Anchor Hosting, after receiving a tip about one add-on containing code that allowed third-party access.
Signed software abused to deploy antivirus-killing scripts
A digitally signed adware tool has deployed payloads running with SYSTEM privileges that disabled antivirus protections on thousands of endpoints, some in the educational, utilities, government, and healthcare sectors.
In a single day, researchers observed more than 23,500 infected hosts in 124 countries trying to connect to the operator’s infrastructure, with hundreds of infected endpoints present in high-value networks.
Scientists Discover Game-Changing New Way To Treat High Cholesterol
Scientists are rethinking how to treat a widespread genetic cholesterol disorder by targeting particle production instead of removal.
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) disrupts one of the body’s most important cleanup systems. Normally, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), often called “bad” cholesterol, is removed from the bloodstream by LDL receptors (LDLR) in the liver. These receptors act like docking stations, pulling cholesterol into cells where it can be broken down. In people with FH, mutations in the LDLR gene weaken or disable this process.
As a result, cholesterol builds up in the blood for decades, often without obvious symptoms until it leads to heart attacks or other cardiovascular problems. About 1 in 200 adults carries this genetic change, making it one of the most common inherited disorders worldwide.
The Most Underrated Philosophy of All Time?
What if we were to reintroduce aristtelianism back into physics not the common sense notion of motion of bodies but teleology.
Spatiotemporal molecular profiling of macrophage-fibroblast crosstalk defines checkpoints orchestrating onset and resolution of inflammation
Weishaupt, Chambers, et al. combine single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling with in vivo models to map the temporal dynamics of macrophage-fibroblast communication during inflammatory arthritis. They show that fibroblasts initiate inflammation, whereas monocyte-derived macrophages undergo transcriptional reprogramming into SPP1+ cells that actively promote resolution by restraining fibroblast pathogenicity.
Scientists capture superconductivity’s ‘dancing pairs’ for first time, revealing missing pieces in a decades-old theory
For the first time, scientists have directly imaged the quantum process underlying superconductivity, a phenomenon in which paired electrons cause electric current to flow without resistance at sufficiently low temperatures. The results weren’t quite what they expected.
In the study, published April 15 in Physical Review Letters, the scientists directly imaged individual atoms pairing up in a special gas cooled nearly to absolute zero—the unreachable limit to how cold things can get. The type of gas, called a Fermi gas, allows scientists to substitute electrons with atoms and probe the physics of superconductors in a controlled way.
Surprisingly, the scientists found that after pairing up, the atoms moved in a synchronized dance, with their positions dependent on those of other pairs—a phenomenon not predicted by the 70-year-old, Nobel-prize-winning theory of superconductivity.