Skip to main content
HomeTopicsFraud

Fraud

We've curated 532 cybersecurity statistics about Fraud to help you understand how tactics like phishing, identity theft, and payment fraud are evolving in 2025, impacting businesses and consumers alike in our increasingly digital world.

Showing 201-220 of 532 results

The reported usage of third-party authenticator apps as a secondary authentication method increased to 19% in 2025, up from 16% in 2024.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Authenticator app

One-time passcodes remained the most popular second factor, utilized by 33% of business leaders globally, down from 35% in 2024.

TransUnion10/8/2025
OTP

Total lender exposure to suspected synthetic identities for US auto loans, credit cards, and unsecured personal loans was USD$2.7 billion at the end of H1 2025.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Synthetic identityUS

29% of organizations identified account misuse or other fraud as the most common API security problem.

Salt Security10/8/2025
APIAccount misuse

The Communities (online dating, forums, etc.) industry's suspected fraud attempt rate globally was 8.3% in H1 2025.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Cummunities

26% of Canadian business leaders attributed fraud losses to synthetic identity fraud, an increase of eight percentage points year over year.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Synthetic identityCanada

India's suspected digital fraud rate was 8.4% in H1 2025, exceeding the global rate.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Fraud lossIndia

Financial transaction fraud remained low across all African markets, ranging from 0.2%–0.9%, significantly below the 2.7% global average.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Financial transaction fraudAfrica

The rate of suspected digital fraud for account creation attempts increased by 26% from H1 2024 (when the rate was 6.6%) to H1 2025.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Account creation

The Telecommunications industry recorded a global suspected fraud attempt rate of 4.4% in H1 2025.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Telecommunications

Financial services globally experienced a suspected fraud attempt rate of 3.3% in H1 2025.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Financial services

Philippine business leaders reported losing the equivalent of 6.0% of their revenues to fraud, totaling 4T.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Fraud lossPhilippines

Hong Kong's suspected digital fraud rate fell to 2.7% in H1 2025, representing a 73% drop from the 10.2% rate observed in H1 2022.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Hong Kong

Scammer/solicitation fraud grew the most since H1 2021, increasing by 184%.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Scam

Scammer/solicitation was the top type of digital fraud, representing 1.84% of all suspected digital fraud types reported globally in H1 2025.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Scam

43% of business leaders ranked IP intelligence in their top three technologies for preventing fraud.

TransUnion10/8/2025
IP intelligence

48% of business leaders globally ranked device reputation as one of their top three most effective technologies for fraud prevention.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Device reputation

64% of US business leaders indicated fraudsters increased their attacks on call centers in the past year, up from 44% in 2024.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Call centerUS

The Communities (online dating, forums, etc.) industry in Spain had the highest suspected digital fraud rate at 9.5%.

TransUnion10/8/2025
CommunitiesSpain

82% of business leaders reported that every type of fraud measured stayed the same or increased in the past year, up from 75% in 2024.

TransUnion10/8/2025
Fraud loss