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US cybercrime losses pass $20B for first time as AI boosts online fraud

ID: eac06724-6a18-52ac-8fc3-fe19b4ad2daf

STIX ID: report--eac06724-6a18-52ac-8fc3-fe19b4ad2daf

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
65/100

Date Published: 2026-04-07

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Brandon Vigliarolo

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The FBI’s 2025 IC3 report shows record cybercrime scale and financial loss—$20.87B and over one million complaints—with phishing, investment scams, BEC, extortion, and ransomware driving most losses; for the first time the report includes a section on AI, noting thousands of AI-related complaints (~22k) and nearly $893M in attributed losses as criminals use AI to create fake profiles, voice clones, and convincing content to enable fraud.

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