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| FBI Reports $20.8 Billion Lost To Cybercrime As Hackers Turn To AI |
| 2026-04-17 |
| [Forbes] On Monday, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its annual Internet Crime Report, which found a 26% increase in cybercrime losses between 2024 and 2025, with a total of $20.88 billion lost in 2025. The report, based on over a million complaints, found that cybercrime is on the rise with threat actors maintaining well-coordinated and targeted operations. Investment-related fraud and business email compromise (BEC) were two of the biggest threats last year, accounting for the majority of losses. At the same time, the FBI found that many hackers were using AI to target victims, receiving more than 22,000 complaints related to this category with losses exceeding $893 million. As AI tools become more advanced, the level of risk enterprises are exposed to is increasing. Now, security teams need to be prepared to protect their environments in a world where threat actors can create convincing scams at scale with just a few prompts. |
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