The reports
Global Scam Report
What the major annual reports say about the state of online fraud, channel by channel.
Europol · ENISA · FBI 🤖Generative AI & voice deepfakes
How artificial intelligence changed the scale and realism of voice scams.
FBI · Pindrop 📡SIM farms & criminal call centers
The industry behind millions of fake numbers and fake accounts — dismantled in 2025.
Europol 🕵️Documented criminal networks: the Lazarus case
A group stealing billions in crypto assets by infiltrating real companies.
FBI · CISA · Microsoft 📱Fake QR codes & quishing
A package, a parking meter, a poster — the QR code has become a fraud vector in its own right.
FBI · FTC 💼Recruitment fraud
Losses have multiplied fivefold in four years — the fake job offer that costs real money.
FTC · BBB 📈Why fraud is exploding right now
The synthesis: five documented factors combining at once, not just one.
Series synthesis 🔭Threats 2030
What cybersecurity agencies project for the coming years — sourced, no speculation.
ENISA 🧭Hybrid threats
How a hybrid threat works — the mechanism, not the geopolitics.
Hybrid CoE · ENISA 🕳️Dark web
What really sells on dark web markets, and how your credentials pass through them.
Europol 🕸️Emerging phishing techniques
Two techniques that now bypass two-factor authentication and automated filters.
Microsoft · Trustwave 💬The evolution of smishing
$470 million lost by text in 2024 in the US — five times more than in 2020.
FTC · FBI 📵Caller ID spoofing
How a number can show a fake identity, and why technical verification is still incomplete.
FCC 💔Romance scams
$1.16 billion in losses in nine months — what the numbers say, without judgment.
FTC · FBIMore reports follow regularly, along with country-specific reports and coverage in additional languages. This page grows with each new publication.
Our method
Every figure cited in The Threat Laboratory comes from a real, identified report, organization or authority — never a vague "gut feel" estimate. The full list of dated sources is public.