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Cybersecurity reports and statistics published by Cofense
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Recent Statistics & Reports
Conversational attacks comprise 18% of all malicious emails.
2/9/2026•
PhishingEmail SecurityEmail Attack
In 2025, a malicious email attack occurs every 19 seconds, more than doubling from 2024’s pace of one every 42 seconds.
2/9/2026•
PhishingEmail SecurityEmail Attack
Abuse of legitimate remote access tools increased by 900% by volume.
2/9/2026•
Remote Access ToolsPhishingEmail Security
Credential phishing campaigns using .es domains increase 51 times year-over-year, with the .es top-level domain jumping from the 56th to the 3rd most-abused TLD.
2/9/2026•
PhishingDomain AbuseCredential Theft
82% of malicious files have unique hashes that traditional pattern-matching fails to detect.
2/9/2026•
Malicious FilesThreat DetectionPhishing
76% of initial infection URLs in abalyzed phishing attacks were unique and have not appeared in other campaigns across Cofense's customer base.
2/9/2026•
PhishingMalicious URLsEmail Attack
Email-based BEC attacks surged 70% year-over-year.
5/14/2025•
BEC
Tax scams were up by 340% in 2024.
5/14/2025•
Scam
Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) tracked one malicious email every 42 seconds in 2024. Many of these were part of polymorphic phishing attacks.
5/14/2025•
Phishing
Over 40% of malware detected in 2024 was newly observed.
5/14/2025•
Malware
Legitimate file abuse was up 575% in 2024.
5/14/2025•
Scam
Microsoft spoofing spiked 156% in 2024.
5/14/2025•
SpoofingMicrosoft
Nearly half of the newly observed malware was classified as Remote Access Trojans (RATs).
5/14/2025•
MalwareRATs
Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) tracked one malicious email every 42 seconds in 2024. Many of these were part of polymorphic phishing attacks.
5/14/2025•
Phishing