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How AI Is Changing the Crimes That Succeed Against Organizations

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Generative AI is raising success rates on fraud, impersonation, and intrusion by making those attacks cheaper and harder to dismiss as fake. The FBI now tracks AI-linked internet crime as its own category.

In 2025 the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center recorded 22,364 complaints that referenced artificial intelligence, with reported losses of nearly $893 million. That was the first dedicated AI section in nearly 25 years of IC3 reporting, inside a year when Americans reported nearly $21 billion in internet crime losses overall (FBI). The AI total is a floor. It counts only what victims noticed and reported as AI-related.

Video-conference impersonation has already produced eight-figure corporate losses. INTERPOL said in 2026 that artificial intelligence was enabling 55 percent of reported cybercrimes across Africa. That is why this sits on the CISO and CFO agenda now.

What counts as AI-enabled crime

AI-enabled crime is ordinary criminal tradecraft that...

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