The FBI’s 2025 Cybercrime Report Just Gave Small Businesses Another Reason to Get Serious About Cyber Risk
The FBI’s latest Internet Crime Complaint Center report shows a cybercrime landscape that is growing more costly, more fraud-driven, and increasingly shaped by AI. Small businesses should pay close attention. The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Annual Report offers one of the clearest yearly snapshots of cyber-enabled crime in the United States. The topline numbers alone are hard to ignore: IC3 received 1,008,597 complaints in 2025, with reported losses reaching $20.877 billion, up 26% from 2024. The average reported loss was $20,699. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} That does not mean every complaint came from a small business. The report covers a broad population of victims. But the attack patterns highlighted in the report map directly to the same operational risks that hurt small and midsize businesses every day: phishing, business email compromise, tech support fraud, data breaches, ransomware, and increasingly believable AI-enabled scams. That is why SMB...