New Delhi, April 9 -- AI driven cyber-attacks are becoming faster, cheaper, and easier to execute, lowering the barrier for attackers, said Sharda Tickoo, Country Manager for India and SAARC at TrendAI

She told CIOL on the sidelines of a select media briefing held in Bengaluru on April 8, 2026, during the launch of new global research published by the AI security firm.

Tickoo said AI is significantly reducing the time, cost, and expertise required to launch sophisticated attacks, enabling even less-skilled actors to operate at scale. "The same attack that earlier needed high skill, time, and compute can now be executed at a fraction of the cost and effort," she said, adding that this is increasing both the speed and scale of cyber threa...