Artificial intelligence is making cyberattacks increasingly sophisticated and costlier for businesses, reinsurer Munich Re said Wednesday, warning of methods ranging from highly personalised phishing emails to computer-generated, convincing fake identities.
"If cybercrime were a country, it would be the third-largest economy in the world", behind only the United States and China, the reinsurer said in a report.
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