{"id":663947,"date":"2026-10-24T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663947\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:26:13","slug":"threat-is-very-real-to-india-microsoft-ai-expert-nicholas-butts-at-ndtv-world-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663947\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Threat Is Very Real To India&#8217;: Microsoft AI Expert Nicholas Butts At NDTV World Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                New Delhi: <\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Butts, Director of AI and Cybersecurity Policy at Microsoft, on Friday listed three recent threats to India specifically, noting that it&#8217;s the seventh most targeted country in the world when it comes to cybersecurity, and the third most targeted in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the NDTV World Summit 2026 in New Delhi, Butts said, \u201cWe get about 165 trillion telemetry signals that we process every day. We screen about 5 billion emails every day. We block about 5 million net-new malware files every day. We have quite a unique vantage point on some of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we&#8217;re seeing is not about potential doom and gloom in 10 years but about very real security threats right here today,\u201d he added, using a \u201cleaky roof\u201d analogy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe threat is very real to India,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about state actors such as China, North Korea, or even Pakistan, Butts listed examples of some recent threats. \u201cA threat actor that we tracked is \u2018Storm 3168&#8242;, sometimes called Jadepuffer. It&#8217;s a ransomware organisation that&#8217;s based out of China, essentially using AI agents to conduct ransomware attacks against customers all over the world,\u201d he listed.<\/p>\n<p>READ | <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/1-in-3-chance-ai-will-kill-humanity-in-10-years-ex-google-deepmind-researcher-at-ndtv-world-summit-12225439\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;1 In 3 Chance AI Will kill Humanity In 10 Years&#8221;: Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Alex Turner At NDTV World Summit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a second example, he cited \u201cRussian and Chinese state-sponsored actors using agents as part of their espionage campaign\u201d. \u201cAs late as yesterday (October 22), Microsoft published a new threat intel report about a new state actor that we track as \u2018Storm 0940&#8242;, a Chinese state-sponsored linked actor mainly targeting data theft and espionage purposes,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>As a third threat, he said cybercriminals are becoming a lot more capable with AI. \u201cIn February, there was a new threat actor that was called \u2018EvilTokens&#8217; that we began to track. It&#8217;s essentially two individuals that were able to vibe-code using open-source models and closed-source models. It was a totally autonomous criminal infrastructure selling access to this for $1,500, with a $500 subscription a month for first-time buyers. You would get access to a lot of tools that you were able to use for expensive cyber purposes. It impacted more than 10,000 organisations across 120 countries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi: Nicholas Butts, Director of AI and Cybersecurity Policy at Microsoft, on Friday listed three recent threats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,281139,218,219,61,60,3548,281140,280377,281141,80],"class_list":["post-663947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-framework","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft-ai","tag-ndtv-world-summit-2026","tag-ndtvworldsummit2026","tag-nicholas-butts-microsoft-ai-policy","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}