Small and medium-sized retailers saw significant declines in phishing susceptibility due to training, dropping from 29.3% to 3.7% for small retailers and from 33.3% to 4.2% for medium-sized retailers

The FBI received 193,407 complaints about phishing/spoofing in 2024 (versus 298,878 in 2023 and 321,136 in 2022).

94% of energy firms are pushing to adopt AI-driven cybersecurity due to revenue losses and disruptions caused by ransomware and phishing.

The number of infostealers delivered via phishing emails per week increased by 84% year-over-year.

The share of successful phishing compromises has declined steadily from 46% in 2022 to 29% in 2023 to now just 25% of all incidents remediated by X-Force in 2024.

Malicious ZIP and RAR attachments in phishing emails dropped by 70% and 45% respectively

89% of financial organisations expressed concern about AI-powered phishing attacks.

Only 5% of known phishing attacks are reported to healthcare security teams.

iOS devices are exposed to twice as many phishing attacks compared to Android.

APAC had the highest global phishing encounter rates, followed by EMEA and North America.

In 2024, the percentage of Android users targeted by phishing attacks was 12%.

26% of iOS devices were targeted by threat actors with phishing attacks in 2024.

97% of the phished records SpyCloud collected in 2024 contain at least one email address.

SpyCloud recaptured over 1.7 million phished records between the ONNX and Caffeine PhaaS platforms in the second half of 2024.

About half of the recaptured phished data included specific city or postal code information.

64% of the phished records contained location data, mostly in the form of IP addresses.

70% of UK firms have experienced phishing attempts.

Guardio detected a 604% increase in toll-related scam texts since the beginning of the year.

Steam leads the list of the most impersonated brands in phishing scams.

Scammers are taking advantage of the wave of store closures, including Joann and Forever 21, to create fake 'going out of business' sales.