Phishing is by far the most common type of cybercrime. According to Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) data, individual users reported almost 300,000 phishing and spoofing attacks in 2023, compared to fewer than 56,000 personal data breaches. Researchers with Zscaler ThreatLabz found that phishing attacks increased more than 58 percent in 2023.
A 2024 report by Egress found that 94 percent of organizations fell victim to phishing attacks in the preceding 12 months, and 96 percent were “negatively impacted” by those attacks.