BEC
We've curated 37 cybersecurity statistics about BEC to help you understand how business email compromise tactics are becoming increasingly sophisticated in 2025, targeting organizations through deceptive emails that trick employees into revealing confidential information.
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For Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, English-speaking executives remain the most targeted at 42%.
Norwegian language use in BEC scams is 1.5%.
Impersonation is the most common technique in BEC scams, with 82% of attempts targeting CEOs and executives.
Non-Business Email Compromise (BEC) incidents rose by 214%.
Conversely, EMEA organisations show the highest reporting rate for BEC, at 4.22%
Repeat engagement with VEC in EMEA is the highest of any region, over twice that of BEC.
Email-based BEC attacks surged 70% year-over-year.
BEC claims severity increased by 23% in 2024.
29% of BEC events resulted in funds transfer fraud in 2024.
The majority of 2024 cyber insurance claims (60%) originated from business email compromise (BEC) and funds transfer fraud (FTF) incidents.
The FBI received 21,442 complaints about business email compromise scams in 2024 (versus 21,489 in 2023 and 21,832 in 2022).
Wire transfers were the payment method most frequently targeted by BEC scammers in 2024, reported by 63% of respondents, up from 39% in the previous survey.
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.
Business email compromise (BEC) remained the No. 1 avenue for attempted and actual payments fraud in 2024, cited by 63% of respondents.
Spoof emails were the most prevalent type of BEC, cited by 79% of respondents.
ACH credits saw more BEC scam activity in 2024 than in the prior year, rising to 50% from 47% of respondents reporting incidents.