During the 2024 shopping season, there was a 4x increase in mishing sites compared to monthly averages.

39% of organizations that ran smishing simulations reported that up to half their employees clicked on a malicious link.

80% of organizations experienced phishing or smishing attempts targeting their staff.

33% of leaders at financial services firms say they are unprepared to recover effectively from a Phishing or smishing campaign.

Among targeted consumers globally, the leading type of fraud reported was smishing (36%).

Only 27% of enterprises test smishing.

Only 27% of CISOs at enterprises simulate SMS phishing.

71% of CISOs at enterprises worry about SMS phishing (smishing).

43% of organizations are prepared for smishing.

59% of financial professionals cite SMS and phishing scams powered by AI to deceive victims.

Smishing attacks grew by 22%.

Smishing has rapidly grown to comprise over two-thirds of mobile phishing attacks. Specifically, SMS/text based phishing (Smishing) is now 69.3% of all mishing attacks.