Fortinet expands AI security portfolio with Virtue AI acquisition
Fortinet acquired Virtue AI to add agent red-teaming, MCP scanning and runtime guardrails to its AI security portfolio.
Fortinet acquired Virtue AI to extend its Security for AI strategy beyond FortiAIGate, which protects LLMs from prompt injection, data leakage and model poisoning. Virtue AI brings automated agentic red-teaming across 50+ sandboxed environments and 14 domains, agent discovery and governance including MCP tool scanning, continuous AI validation, and real-time guardrails across text, images, video, audio and code. Financial terms were not disclosed and the consideration is immaterial to Fortinet; Gartner projects the AI security market to grow from $2.8B in 2026 to $16.4B by 2030.
Fortinet FortiSandbox Vulnerability Allows Unauthenticated Attackers to Access Sensitive Information
Fortinet fixed CVE-2026-26084, an unauthenticated access-control flaw in FortiSandbox GUI rated 8.9 CVSS, with no known exploitation yet.
Fortinet disclosed CVE-2026-26084 (advisory FG-IR-26-166), a CWE-284 improper access control flaw in the GUI of FortiSandbox, FortiSandbox Cloud and FortiSandbox PaaS, rated 8.9 CVSS v3.1. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to control NAT rules and expose sensitive information. Affected versions include FortiSandbox 4.4.0-4.4.8 and 5.0.0-5.0.5 (plus Cloud/PaaS 5.0.4-5.0.5), fixed in 4.4.9 and 5.0.6. Fortinet researcher Adham El Karn found the flaw internally and the September 8 advisory reports no known exploitation.