AI-driven cybercrime threatens India’s $5 trillion dream

Sophisticated cybercriminals deploying artificial intelligence (AI) as a weapon are taking advantage of inadequate corporate defences in India, CrowdStrike’s latest Asia Pacific eCrime report found. This raises alarm bells for the country’s $5 trillion economic ambitions.

Though the Asia Pacific region represents more than half of the world’s population, only 9% of ransomware victims worldwide are from this region. But this gap is closing fast, with India leading the regional victim counts. Adam Meyer, CrowdStrike’s head of counter adversary…