Evolving Threats Beneath The Surface

The ecommerce fraud attack rate grew 64% year over year.

Synthetic fraud showed an eight-fold global increase year over year.

North America's overall fraud attack rate remains roughly 2.2%.

Malicious bot attacks increased by 59%, with significant peaks in March and April and again in August 2025.

More than one in ten frauds (11%) involve a synthetic identity.

Synthetic identity fraud accounted for 48.3% of fraud in Latin America.

Agentic traffic rose 450% between January and December 2025.

Global fraud rates increased by 8% driven by attacks targeting the gaming and gambling and ecommerce sectors, cost-of-living pressures and emerging fraud tactics.

First-party fraud accounted for less than 10% of fraud in Latin America.

First-party fraud comprises 38.3% of reported frauds globally and remains the leading fraud type for the second consecutive year.

EMEA's fraud attack rate increased 27% year over year.

APAC's fraud attack rate increased to 1.7%.

First-party fraud accounted for 51.7% of fraud in EMEA.

The attack rate at login jumped 216%.

Gaming and gambling sites experienced a 76% rise in global attack rate in 2025.