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U.S. Cyber Crime Costing $21 Billion

The FBI released its 2025 Internet Crime Report, revealing that Americans were being defrauded to the tune of nearly $21 billion, with artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency crimes behind some of the massive losses.

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said that total losses of $20.87 billion in 2025 are more than 20 times higher than the $1 billion loss reported in 2015. The number of complaints has also surged during this period, rising from 288,012 complaints to more than a million.

The FBI report said that AI-enabled synthetic content is now becoming more difficult to detect and easier to make.

The real question isn’t how big these numbers get… it’s whether our current identity systems were ever designed for this reality.

This is exactly the gap we’re focused on solving at KATSH.ID – verifying the human, not the credentials.