Reported cybercrime losses passed US$20 billion in 2025
The FBI's IC3 logged 1,008,597 complaints and US$20.877 billion in reported losses in 2025, up 26%, plus more than 3,600 ransomware complaints.
How this affects people
Cyber-enabled fraud drives most of the damage: 45% of complaints and 85% of reported losses. Investment fraud is the largest loss category, ahead of business email compromise and tech-support scams.
These are voluntary reports to a US agency, not a global count, and ransomware losses exclude business disruption and recovery costs. IC3 identified 63 new ransomware variants in 2025 and calls ransomware among the highest reported threats to critical infrastructure.
Look at what keeps the problem going
- 01Investment fraud and other cyber-enabled scams
- 02Business email compromise
- 03A ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem with new variants appearing
- 04Attacks on critical infrastructure organisations
What could happen next
The future leaves room for choices. Compare the outlooks, check what supports them and notice where the evidence becomes less certain
Losses keep climbing
Reported losses rose from US$16.6 billion in 2024 to US$20.9 billion in 2025.
The future is not a timetable. These summaries reflect published scenarios and trends, with deeper uncertainty at longer horizons. Choices made now matter.
Where could a useful response begin?
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