The Telecommunications industry recorded a global suspected fraud attempt rate of 4.4% in H1 2025.

The Telecommunications industry in the US saw the highest industry/stage fraud rate, with 37.8% of account creation transactions suspected of digital fraud.

Telecommunications experienced the highest overall fraud rates: 10.15% identity theft and 2.9% synthetic fraud.

In one analysis, telecommunications had 15% of vulnerable assets across cloud, APIs, and web applications.

In one analysis, telecommunications had 15% of vulnerable assets across cloud, APIs, and web applications.

Telecommunications saw the highest VEC engagement rate at 71.3%.

Russia-aligned APT29 (Midnight Blizzard) directed most of its activities towards transportation and shipping (55%) and telecommunications (40%).