US cybercrime losses hit $17.7 billion in 2025, FBI says

Cybercrime cost victims over $17.7 billion during 2025, according to the FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report, with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) receiving over a million complaints about suspected cyber fraud during the year, an average of almost 3,000 complaints a day. The reporting notes this is up from 859,532 complaints in 2024 and records the US losses as exceeding $17.7bn in 2025, up from $16bn in 2024.

Cryptocurrency investment scams accounted for the highest single source of financial fraud, accounting for $7.2bn in losses to victims, while Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud was listed as the second most costly cybercrime, at over $3bn. Fake tech or customer support scams cost victims over $2bn, making them the third largest form of internet fraud, with other cyber-enabled crimes including identity theft, data breaches and ransomware.

For the first time, the report features a section on artificial intelligence, noting that victims lost nearly $893m to AI-enabled fraud in 2025 and that the FBI received 22,364 complaints related to AI.