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Email security statistics, phishing attack trends, user awareness metrics, and defense effectiveness data.

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In 2025, obfuscations to hide URLs from detection were seen in 48% of phishing attacks.

Barracuda1/13/2026
Phishing TechniquesObfuscation

The number of known phishing kits doubled during 2025, reaching a significant increase in active use.

Barracuda1/13/2026
Phishing Kits

Approximately 45% of advanced email attacks showed indicators of AI assistance, projected to rise to 75–95% within the next 18 months

StrongestLayer1/13/2026
Email SecurityEmail Threats

DocuSign accounted for more than 20% of all advanced email attacks analyzed.

StrongestLayer1/13/2026
Email SecurityEmail Threats

In 2025, 'ClickFix' social engineering techniques were used in 1% of phishing attacks.

Barracuda1/13/2026
Phishing TechniquesSocial Engineering

100% of advanced email threats bypassed incumbent email security, including Microsoft E3/E5 and leading secure email gateways.

StrongestLayer1/13/2026
Email SecurityEmail Threats

In 2025, attacks bypassing multifactor authentication (MFA) were reported in 48% of phishing attacks.

Barracuda1/13/2026
MFAMFA Bypass

87 out of every 10,000 users clicked on a phishing link each month in 2025.

Netskope1/13/2026
Phishing LinksUser Behavior

77% of advanced email attacks failed SPF, DKIM, or DMARC authentication yet still reached inboxes.

StrongestLayer1/13/2026
Email SecurityEmail Threats

In 2025, the use of 'Blob URIs' was noted in 2% of phishing attacks.

Barracuda1/13/2026
Phishing Techniques

In 2025, the abuse of trusted, legitimate online platforms was noted in 10% of phishing attacks.

Barracuda1/13/2026
Phishing Techniques

89% of schools experienced at least one cyber incident in the past year, primarily phishing, unauthorized access, and malware.

Action11/1/2026
Cyber IncidentEducation

92% of school IT leaders expect AI-powered phishing to be the most dangerous threat in the coming year

Action11/1/2026
EducationIT Leadership

IT leaders estimate only 5% of known phishing attacks are reported by healthcare employees to their security teams.

Paubox12/14/2025
Email SecurityEmail Breach

In the last quarter, over 42,000 validated URLs and domains were identified as actively serving phishing kits, command-and-control infrastructure, or payload delivery.

SicuraNext12/6/2025
Phishing KitsComman and Control Infrastructure

Meta was mentioned 10,267 times, accounting for 42% of all brand impersonation tracked.

SicuraNext12/6/2025
MetaBrand Impersonation

72% of phishing domains in the dataset utilized obfuscation via legitimate services.

SicuraNext12/6/2025
Phishing Domains

68% of all phishing infrastructure tracked operates on Cloudflare as of the current year.

SicuraNext12/6/2025
Phishing InfrastructureCloudflare

11,324 phishing domains used the .com top-level domain, making it the most common among attackers.

SicuraNext12/6/2025
Phishing Domains

Over the past four months, 20 distinct phishing clusters were identified based on shared infrastructure fingerprints.

SicuraNext12/6/2025
Phishing Infrastructure