Fraud
We've curated 532 cybersecurity statistics about Fraud to help you understand how tactics like phishing, identity theft, and payment fraud are evolving in 2025, impacting businesses and consumers alike in our increasingly digital world.
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Scams, including authorized push payment (APP) fraud, represent 11% of cases. This is down from 16% of cases in 2023.
Account takeover (ATO) fraud represents a further 27% of global reported fraud. This is down by ~2% year on year.
LATAM's attack rate is now lower than North America at 2.2%.
Global Financial Services firms saw an 18% uplift in automated bot attacks.
APAC's attack rate grew significantly by 37% through 2024. It now stands at 1.5% of all transactions in the region
The human attack rate saw only a marginal (1%) increase in 2024.
There was a 15% decrease in global bot attacks in 2024.
There were more than three billion brute-force automated account takeover attacks detected last year alone.
The FBI received 17,910 complaints about confidence fraud/romance scams in 2024 (versus 17,823 in 2023 and 19,021 in 2022).
The FBI received 12,876 complaints about credit card/check fraud in 2024 (versus 13,718 in 2023 and 22,985 in 2022).
The FBI received 21,442 complaints about business email compromise scams in 2024 (versus 21,489 in 2023 and 21,832 in 2022).
The FBI received 587 complaints about botnets in 2024 (versus 540 in 2023 and 568 in 2022).
The FBI received 859,532 complaints in total in 2024.
The FBI received 7097 complaints about advanced fee scams in 2024 (versus 8,045 in 2023 and 11,264 in 2022).
The FBI received 36,002 complaints about tech support scams in 2024 (versus 37,560 in 2023 and 32,538 in 2022).
The FBI received 17,367 complaints about government impersonation in 2024 (versus 14,190 in 2023 and 11,554 in 2022).
79% of organisations were victims of attempted or actual payments fraud activity in 2024. This is down very slightly from 2023.
58% of organisations were able to recoup up to 75% of their funds lost due to payments fraud in 2024, up from 29% in 2023
Third-party impersonations, reported by 63% of respondents, remained the most frequent type of BEC scam.
"Classic" BEC scams, saw a significant decline, with 49% of respondents reporting incidents in 2024 compared to 57% in 2023.