Microsoft finally patches critical one-click Copilot vulnerability, almost eight months after learning of it

Almost eight months after confirming a critical security vulnerability within the personal version of its AI assistant, Copilot, Microsoft on Tuesday issued a patch to close the hole, which relies on an LLM’s inability to distinguish the data in a query from an instruction. The CoSnitch hole was discovered by Varonis, and marked the third Copilot bug that Varonis has reported to Microsoft this…