FBI Tallies Nearly $21 Billion in 2025 Cybercrime Losses as AI Scams Grow More Convincing
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 2
FBI Tallies Nearly $21 Billion in 2025 Cybercrime Losses as AI Scams Grow More Convincing
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 2
Summary
$21 billion in reported cyber-enabled crime losses hit Americans in 2025, up 26% from a year earlier, according to FBI data highlighted by Kurt Knutsson.
$8.65 billion of that total came from investment fraud, while 22,364 complaints mentioning AI accounted for about $893 million in losses.
AI tools are making scam emails, voices, identities and videos harder to spot, erasing many of the obvious warning signs victims once relied on.
Knutsson urged five defenses: enable instant bank alerts, strengthen logins with multifactor authentication, lock down phone numbers, freeze credit and add protections to retirement and investment accounts.
The warning points to a broader shift in fraud prevention: building account barriers matters more as AI makes social-engineering scams increasingly believable.