Phishing
Email security statistics, phishing attack trends, user awareness metrics, and defense effectiveness data.
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Phishing currently accounts for the highest number of security on-chain security incidents so far in 2025 (30/06/2025) in H1 2025.
Phishing was the second most costly, with $410,747,038 stolen across 132 on-chain security incidents in H1 2025.
Phishing was the most costly attack vector, with $395,063,695 stolen across 52 on-chain security incidents in Q2 2025.
ClickFix became the second most common attack method after phishing.
44.7% of respondents cited phishing/social engineering as a top concerning threat.
44.7% of respondents cited phishing/social engineering as a top concerning threat.
Three in four (75%) of users have encountered social engineering attempts like phishing and impersonation scams.
54% of enterprises said phishing-related data breaches was one of the most common ways to lose data.
Only 53% of healthcare organizations run phishing simulations.
Nearly half (46%) of organizations experienced an uptick in targeted phishing attacks.
84% of respondents cited phishing as a top risk.
83% of respondents cited attacks on local or cloud storage as a top risk, ranking second only to phishing.
92% of the world's top email domains are reported to remain unprotected against phishing and spoofing.
Only 7.7% of the world’s top 1.8 million email domains are fully protected against phishing and spoofing by having implemented the most stringent DMARC policy, 'p=reject'1.
Reports of phishing scams rose by a staggering 466% compared to the previous quarter.
Reports of phishing scams rose by a staggering 466% compared to the previous quarter.
Phishing now makes up nearly 32% of all scam submissions to the Norton Genie scam detector platform.
Security awareness training reduced phishing susceptibility from approximately 33.1% to just 4.1% after one year in state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments.
Security awareness training reduced phishing susceptibility from approximately 33.1% to just 4.1% after one year in state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments.
Phishing has risen to second place of most popular attack types.