Contact-center deepfake attempts rose 1,300% year over year, according to voice-security firm Pindrop, marking one of the sharpest documented jumps in AI-generated fraud activity tracked across recent industry reports.

A compilation of 2025 and 2026 fraud data published by StingrAI, drawing on figures from Gartner, Pindrop, CrowdStrike, and the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, found that 62% of organizations reported experiencing at least one deepfake-related incident in the past 12 months, per Gartner's most recent leader survey. CrowdStrike separately reported a 442% year-over-year increase in vishing, or voice-phishing, attempts that used AI-generated audio to impersonate real employees or executives.

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center recorded roughly $13 million in losses tied to fake AI-generated job-interview schemes in 2025 alone. Separately, Regula's global fraud survey found that one in three organizations now encounters deepfake fraud attempts at a frequency comparable to traditional document fraud and social engineering scams.

Industry researchers point to voice as the fastest-growing deepfake attack channel, ahead of video and image-based face-swap attempts, as generative audio tools have become cheaper and easier to deploy against corporate call centers and help desks. The reports describe deepfake fraud as shifting from an isolated novelty into a standard tool used across cybercrime operations.

Source: StingrAI - https://www.stingrai.io/blog/deepfake-statistics-2026