Privacy and security (48%) and ensuring their organization uses AI responsibly (43%) were among the top three challenges keeping government fraud fighters up at night

Only 3% of CIOs report no current plans to implement Edge AI.

18% of respondents claimed to personally know someone involved in insider fraud.

92% of respondents believe threat intelligence is critical.

78% of respondents believe AI will improve threat intel sharing within their organization.

22% of organizations are actively in production with limited deployment of AI at the edge.

Survey respondents estimated that approximately 16% of budgets could be saved by tackling fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in general.

Current AI adoption rates for addressing FWA are relatively low, with about half of those surveyed using AI.

Among those already using AI to confront FWA, nearly 40% cite better prioritization of fraud alerts and quicker identification of FWA as benefits.

59% of respondents report having too many alerts.

When it comes to the most concerning threat actors, external sources dominate with hacktivists holding the top spot.

33% of SOCs are using GenAI for Threat intelligence analysis.

85% of respondents listed fighting fraud as a top five priority.

Nearly a third face significant resource limitations in fighting FWA.

52% of respondents say their team is overworked.

31% of SOCs are using GenAI for Querying security data.

58% of respondents have been exposed to refund hacks disguised as influencer content.

Since January 2024, DNSFilter has been processing a monthly average of over 330 million queries that fall under the generative AI category.

This number of blocked requests represented about 12% of all generative AI queries processed by DNSFilter in March.

There was a 2,000% rise in malicious sites containing "openai" in their name between April 2024 and April 2025