Cybercrime to cost $12.2T a year by 2031 as AI becomes the battlefield
ChuckDBrooks · x · 2026-09-19
A Forbes piece by Chuck Brooks argues cybersecurity is now an operational environment for every business. Five forces shaping 2027: agentic AI in attack/defense, quantum shrinking the harvest-now-decrypt-later window, deepfakes powering social engineering, expanding IoT/edge attack surface, and cybercrime becoming a corporate-scale global economy — estimated at $10.5T in losses for 2025, projected $12.2T annually by 2031.
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