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

In 2025, the use of 'Blob URIs' was noted in 2% of phishing attacks.

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.

92% of school IT leaders expect AI-powered phishing to be the most dangerous threat in the coming year

89% of schools experienced at least one cyber incident in the past year, primarily phishing, unauthorized access, and malware.

IT leaders estimate only 5% of known phishing attacks are reported by healthcare employees to their security teams.

Over the past four months, 20 distinct phishing clusters were identified based on shared infrastructure fingerprints.

In the last quarter, over 42,000 validated URLs and domains were identified as actively serving phishing kits, command-and-control infrastructure, or payload delivery.

11,324 phishing domains used the .com top-level domain, making it the most common among attackers.

Almost 60% of the observed indicators of compromise (IOCs) are linked with Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS).

The mean DNS resolution rate for phishing operators was 96.16%, indicating high availability and minimal downtime.

51.54% of the phishing infrastructure is directly hosted, while 48.46% is protected by CDN/proxy services.

68% of all phishing infrastructure tracked operates on Cloudflare as of the current year.

72% of phishing domains in the dataset utilized obfuscation via legitimate services.

Meta was mentioned 10,267 times, accounting for 42% of all brand impersonation tracked.

80% of phishing attempts analyzed by Darktrace in 2024 impersonated Amazon.

Phishing activity overall increased by 128% during the 2025 holiday period compared to the 2024 holiday period.

There is a 14% increase in phishing scams around Christmas.