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Imposter scams were the most commonly reported type of fraud in 2025, with Americans reporting $3.5 billion in losses, according to new data from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Reported losses have increased nearly three times since 2020, and the true number is likely much higher since many scams go unreported. Losses across all types of fraud surged to $16 billion, a 25% increase compared to 2024.

Agentic threat intelligence is an emerging CTI model where bounded agents support repetitive investigation work, such as collection, enrichment, prioritization, and evidence packaging, while analysts retain control over takedown and escalation decisions. Vendor briefings are full of “agentic AI” right now. Most of them describe the same thing: faster dashboards and smarter alerts. That is not agentic threat intelligence.

A newly surfaced extortion brand called “Pink” is using voice phishing and fake IT support calls to breach organizations, the Register reports. The threat actor may be a rebrand of prior extortion groups, including BlackFile and Redact, though its tactics remain the same.

Phishing scams surged across social media platforms during the first quarter of 2026, according to a new report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). “Threat volume increased in Q1 2026 on every social media platform, predominantly in two formats: Scams (27.1 percent of all threats) and Impersonation (43.8 percent of all threats),” the report says. The APWG adds, “Impersonation became more prevalent than in the previous quarter.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns that Americans lost just under $900 million to AI-powered scams in 2025, Malwarebytes reports. Total reported losses to scams last year reached nearly $21 billion, a 26% increase from 2024. The researchers note that the true losses are likely much higher, since many attacks go unreported. “The main drivers behind the rise in AI-powered scams are voice cloning, deepfake images and videos, and AI‑generated scripts,” Malwarebytes says.

When the weather starts to get warmer, it is a sign that summer time is around the corner. But just as the weather heats up and travel plans get booked, scammers capitalize on the season by performing nefarious schemes to separate victims from their money and other valuables. Recent McAfee research found that more than one in three Americans have experienced a travel-related cyberthreat, with 41% of those affected losing money, often costing victims over $500.

Article originally published in Green Sheet, June 15, 2026 As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes the fraud landscape, financial institutions are under growing pressure to detect and stop increasingly sophisticated threats in real time. From AI-driven social engineering scams to evolving mule-account activity and instant payment fraud, traditional approaches to fraud prevention are being tested like never before.