LexisNexis’s latest Cybercrime Report reveals a rapid growth in synthetic identity fraud, bot-driven attacks, and account takeover activity.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions’s latest Cybercrime Report showed that there has been an 8% rise in global fraud rates derived from attacks in the gaming, gambling, and e-commerce sectors.
The report derived data from an analysis of more than 116 billion online transactions detected through their LexisNexis Digital Identity Network in 2025. Based on regional fraud trends, the report highlighted evolving global threat patterns.
North America experienced periodic spikes in ecommerce fraud, while attacks in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region rose sharply by 27% as fraudsters target authentication
weaknesses across digital services.
The Asia-Pacific region continued to see strong digital transaction growth alongside rising fraud activity, while the Latin American region remained diverse in terms of fraud, although the region saw concerns around a rise of synthetic identity fraud linked to expanding digital services.
Stephen Topliss, Vice President of Fraud and Identity at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, said: “While organisations are strengthening defences across channels, cybercriminal networks are scaling automation, shifting tactics and probing for any available weaknesses across the digital customer journey. Increasingly, attackers rely on advanced bots and AI-driven tools to mimic human behaviour and test defences with unprecedented speed and accuracy.”
The report also highlighted that customer fraud still leads in terms of all fraud cases globally, comprising almost two in five reported frauds. More than one in ten fraud cases now involve a
synthetic identity, and e-commerce fraud attacks grew 64% year-on-year.
Interestingly, agentic traffic rose 450% in 2025 which was mainly linked to credit card payments and logins at gaming and gambling sites. While these AI agents do not pose a threat yet, they still present a new challenge for fraud detection in the long term.
“Cybercriminals are experimenting with the same technologies that are transforming digital commerce and organisations must prepare for a future where both legitimate users and malicious actors rely on automated agents to interact online. Those that succeed must be able to confidently distinguish between humans, bots and agents as well as determining intent,” added Topliss.
Read the report here.
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