India seventh most targeted by cyberattacks: MS executive Nicholas Butts

Butts cited Storm 3168, also called Jadepuffer, which he described as a China-based ransomware operation using AI agents against customers worldwide.

He also pointed to Russian and Chinese state-sponsored actors deploying agents for espionage, including a group Microsoft tracks as Storm 0940.

AI was also lowering the barriers for smaller criminal operations, he said.

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