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Email security statistics, phishing attack trends, user awareness metrics, and defense effectiveness data.

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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

KnowBe44/23/2025
EnergySecurity awareness training

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

FBI4/23/2025
Social engineeringSpoofing

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

KnowBe44/23/2025
AIEnergy

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

IBM 4/17/2025
Infostealer

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.

IBM 4/17/2025

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

IBM 4/17/2025
Malicious ZIP

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

Bridewell4/15/2025
Financial institutionAI

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

Paubox4/15/2025
Healthcare

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

Lookout4/9/2025
iOSAndroid

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

Lookout4/9/2025
APACEMEA

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

Lookout4/9/2025
Android

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

Lookout4/9/2025
iOS

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

SpyCloud4/8/2025
RecordsEmail address

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

SpyCloud4/8/2025
Records

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

SpyCloud4/8/2025
RecordsLocation

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

SpyCloud4/8/2025
RecordsLocation

70% of UK firms have experienced phishing attempts.

Vodafone4/7/2025
SMEUK

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

Guardio4/3/2025
ScamsTolls

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

Guardio4/3/2025
Scams

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

Guardio4/3/2025
Scams