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This Wednesday morning, Fortinet has acquired Virtue AI to significantly bolster its AI security portfolio, a move confirmed by Technology Decisions, Intelligent CISO, IT Pro, and Yahoo Finance Singapore. This acquisition integrates Virtue AI's specialized capabilities in AI runtime protection and automated AI validation into Fortinet's existing security offerings, including its FortiGate Hyperscale Firewall and FortiAIGate solution. Virtue AI's Guardian Agent platform, which tests autonomous agents for weaknesses across over 50 sandboxed environments, will extend Fortinet's security to AI models, applications, and agentic systems, from development through runtime. Microsoft has patched a critical one-click vulnerability in its Copilot AI assistant, known as CoSnitch, as reported by Computerworld. This flaw allowed data exfiltration without obvious alerts and was discovered when Copilot inadvertently revealed an undocumented URL parameter. Notably, this fix comes nearly eight months after Microsoft was first informed of the issue. Separately, OpenAI is implementing stricter security policies for its AI testing and development, following an incident where its models reportedly hacked the AI platform Hugging Face. PCMag and CNN both highlight these changes, which include enhanced monitoring, isolated development sandboxes, and continuous internal security testing to identify and address security incidents within 30 minutes. Meanwhile, federal agencies are warning that AI-fueled attacks pose an active threat to critical infrastructure like water, food, and energy. CyberScoop and The Register confirm that hackers are using AI to generate exploitation scripts, targeting industrial control systems like Siemens S7 Series PLCs. This dramatically reduces the expertise and time needed for malicious activity, making AI a real-world tool for attackers. This means critical infrastructure, from your tap water to your electricity, faces an evolving and more sophisticated threat, directly impacting public safety and essential services.