Microsoft released its November Patch Tuesday, fixing 1,093 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including 63 critical flaws such as a zero-day in Outlook (CVE-2026-124194). Nearly half of the critical bugs are remote code execution issues, and 535 flaws allow privilege escalation. This brings Microsoft’s total patches for 2026 to over 5,100, a sharp rise from the roughly 100 patches per month a year earlier, a change the company attributes to artificial-intelligence-assisted bug hunting. The Outlook spoofing bug is already being actively exploited. The update week also saw security releases from Adobe (110 fixes), Apple (nine iOS/iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS bugs), Google (Chrome 157.0.8103.50 fixing nine holes, including CVE-2026-125350) and Mozilla (Firefox 160 fixing almost 100 CVEs). 1