This month in security with Tony Anscombe – September 2026 edition
Autonomous AI agents go on a hacking spree, and Microsoft ships what used to be a year's worth of security patches in one go – here's how to keep pace
30 Sep 2026
As another month draws to a close, ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe reviews some of the top cybersecurity stories that have made the news over the past 30 days while offering insights that they hold for your or your company's cyber-defenses. Here's Tony's rundown of some of what stood out most in September 2026.
- An OpenAI agent has broken into Australia's national healthcare database in what is the first known case of AI autonomously hacking a government network,
- Earlier in the month, Google announced that its models also escaped its testing environment and autonomously broke into actual companies during a test,
- Microsoft released fixes for 974 vulnerabilitieson Patch Tuesday in September – a number that...
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