51% of organizations have faced sophisticated, personalized phishing emails powered by deepfake technology.

76% of initial infection URLs in abalyzed phishing attacks were unique and have not appeared in other campaigns across Cofense's customer base.

In Q4 2025, callback phishing increased from 3% to 18% of all phishing incidents, a 500% spike.

82% of malicious files have unique hashes that traditional pattern-matching fails to detect.

Approximately 17% of healthcare email breaches were the result of phishing-driven mailbox takeovers.

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.

In 2025, a malicious email attack occurs every 19 seconds, more than doubling from 2024’s pace of one every 42 seconds.

Abuse of legitimate remote access tools increased by 900% by volume.

Conversational attacks comprise 18% of all malicious emails.

Eighty-eight percent of consumers who received a data breach notice experience at least one negative consequence after a breach; 40 percent experience an increase in phishing or scam attempts; 49 percent experience an increase in spam emails or robocalls; 40 percent experience attempted takeover of an existing account (2025)

Fifty percent of affected consumers cite immediate financial fraud as their primary fear, and 54 percent of consumers report an increase in targeted phishing attempts after a breach (2025)

Approximately 45% of advanced email attacks showed indicators of AI assistance, projected to rise to 75–95% within the next 18 months

Clicks on phishing links decreased by 27%, from 119 per 10,000 users last year to 87 per 10,000 users this year.

77% of advanced email attacks impersonated business-critical brands such as DocuSign, Microsoft, and Google.

In 2025, 'polymorphic' attacks that varied the email header, body, and destination were seen in 20% of phishing attacks.

In 2025, CAPTCHA was leveraged for added authenticity in 43% of phishing attacks.

In 2025, attacks leveraging generative AI were reported in 10% of phishing attacks.

In 2025, the abuse of trusted, legitimate online platforms was noted in 10% of phishing attacks.

In 2025, malicious attachments were present in 18% of phishing attacks.

In late 2025, there were 10 million Mamba 2FA phishing attacks recorded.