India, April 14 -- Something fundamental has shifted in cybersecurity, and while a few nations are beginning to grasp the implications, most, particularly India, remain dangerously unprepared for what comes next.

Last week, Anthropic revealed that its latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) system can autonomously discover, chain, and weaponise software vulnerabilities at machine speed, far beyond anything human teams can achieve. It identified thousands of high-severity zero-days across major operating systems and browsers and even uncovered a flaw in OpenBSD's TCP stack that had survived 27 years of audits and stress testing.

This rewrites the rules of cyber conflict by shifting attacks from tricking humans into clicking malicious links t...