1、 3rd Quarter 2025 Activity July-September 2025 Published 9 December 2025 Unifying the Global Response To Cybercrime PHISHING ACTIVITY TRENDS REPORT Phishing Activity Trends Report 3rd Quarter 2025 www.apwg.org infoapwg.org 2 Phishing Activity Trends Report,3rd Quarter 2025 Table of Contents Statisti
2、cal Highlights 3 Most-Targeted Industry Sectors 4 QR Code Attacks 5 Business Email Compromise 7 APWG Phishing Trends Report Contributors 11 About the APWG 11 Phishers Attacking By All Media,Using Texts,QR Codes,and More Phishing Report Scope The APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report analyzes phishing
3、 attacks and other identity theft techniques,as reported to the APWG by its member companies,its Global Research Partners,through the organizations website at http:/www.apwg.org,and by e-mail submissions to reportphishingapwg.org.APWG measures the evolution,proliferation,and propagation of identity
4、theft methods by drawing from the research of our member companies and industry experts.Phishing Defined Phishing is a crime employing both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers personal identity data and financial account credentials.Social engineering schemes prey on unwar
5、y victims by fooling them into believing they are dealing with a trusted,legitimate party,such as by using deceptive email addresses and messages,bogus web sites,and deceptive domain names.These are designed to lead consumers to counterfeit Web sites that trick recipients into divulging financial da
6、ta such as usernames and passwords.Technical subterfuge schemes plant malware onto computers to steal credentials directly,often using systems that intercept consumers account usernames and passwords or misdirect consumers to counterfeit Web sites.Phishing Activity Trends Summary In the third quarte