India, Aug. 4 -- A clear trend consistently pointing to threat actors increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to construct cyberattacks has become a real concern for organisations, marking a critical inflection point as a result. Tech giant IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report pointed out that the average total organisational cost of a data breach in India reached an all-time high, and that 26% of malicious breaches in India are AI-generated.

The report released today, titled 'The AI tipping point', noted that the overall cost to organisations from AI-generated data breaches now stands at Rs.255 million (around $2.7 million). That is a 15.9% annual increase. Globally, there is a 56% increase in AI-generated attacks, with the a...