2026 State of Executive Impersonation

53% of organizations had an executive or employee impersonated.

6.84% of executive impersonation alerts originated from open community forums.

23.8% of executives face impersonation attacks distributed across social platforms, lookalike domains, forums, and broker-site PII exposure simultaneously.

35.05% of executive impersonation alerts originated from video and visual platforms.

3.57% of executive impersonation alerts originated from executive lookalike domains.

53.83% of executive impersonation alerts originated from social platforms.

76.2% of executives see nearly all impersonation activity concentrated on a single surface.