India, Oct. 23 -- Something quite unprecedented is unfolding on the internet. It affects almost everyone who uses the internet, has online banking accounts, has ever made a digital payment on any website, has a smart home system, uses cloud storage, or does online shopping. That essentially means everyone.

A lot continues to unfold. In just the last few days, India's largest bank, the State Bank of India (SBI) warned that almost 4,000 customer records were leaked to the dark web. Microsoft warned that a Chinese group called Storm-0940 is using artificial intelligence (AI) penetration to automate attacks targeting hundreds of organisations globally using a cloud backup service called ConnectWise.

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