Social Engineering
We've curated 25 cybersecurity statistics about Social engineering to help you understand how attackers manipulate human psychology to gain sensitive information and access in 2025. These insights reveal the tactics used and the importance of awareness in combating these threats.
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Social Engineering was the second-most common incident pattern in the region, with phishing appearing in 19% of breaches in EMEA.
The FBI received 193,407 complaints about phishing/spoofing in 2024 (versus 298,878 in 2023 and 321,136 in 2022).
20% of phishing emails between September 15, 2024 and February 14, 2025 relied solely on social engineering.
In Q4 2024, HP threat researchers saw a growth in social engineering campaigns that rely on fake CAPTCHA challenges to infect users with malware
42% of organisations reported phishing and social engineering attacks in 2024.