Threat Landscape

The attacks your stack
can't stop.

BEC, AI voice deepfakes, CEO fraud, and vendor impersonation — identity-based attacks that bypass every technical control you already have. These are the numbers.

$50B+

Cumulative BEC & CEO fraud losses (2013–2023)

FBI IC3

$50B+
BEC & CEO fraud losses globally (2013–2023)
FBI IC3
82%
Of breaches involve a human element
Verizon DBIR 2024
3 sec
Of audio needed to clone any voice with AI
ElevenLabs research
$4.88M
Average total cost of a data breach in 2024
IBM Cost of Breach 2024
Six attack vectors

Every threat, fully documented.

Each entry includes attack anatomy, real-world case studies, why existing security controls fail, and exactly how Real Authenticator stops it. All claims are cited.

Most costly attack vector

Business Email Compromise (BEC)

$2.9BLost to BEC in the US in 2023 alone

Business Email Compromise is the leading cause of corporate financial fraud worldwide. It doesn't exploit software vulnerabilities. It exploits the trust your team places in a known email address — and no spam filter, DMARC record, or security awareness training has stopped it from growing year over year.

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Fastest-growing attack type

AI Voice & Video Deepfake Fraud

3 secOf audio needed to clone any voice with AI

AI voice cloning technology has advanced so rapidly that convincing audio synthesis now requires as little as three seconds of training data — freely available from any public video, podcast, or social media post. The attacker doesn't need to sound like your CFO. They can be your CFO.

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Most dangerous insider vector

Internal Account Compromise

74%Of breaches involve privilege or credential abuse

Internal account compromise turns your own trusted communication channels into attack vectors. Once an attacker controls a legitimate employee account, they inherit that employee's entire social trust — without triggering a single security alert.

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Supply chain risk

Vendor & Supplier Impersonation

$446MLost to vendor impersonation fraud in 2023

Vendor impersonation exploits one of the most routine processes in any organization: paying a supplier. By the time the fraud is detected, the money has been gone for months — and your real vendor is still waiting to be paid.

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C-suite specific

CEO & Executive Impersonation

$50B+Cumulative executive fraud losses (2013–2023)

CEO and executive impersonation works because organizations are built on hierarchical trust. When a message appears to come from the top of the org chart, the recipient's natural skepticism is suppressed. Attackers have industrialized this psychological dynamic.

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Emerging threat

AI-Augmented Social Engineering

1,265%Increase in phishing emails since ChatGPT launch

Large language models have eliminated the most reliable signal of a phishing or social engineering attack: poor grammar, generic phrasing, and obvious inauthenticity. Attackers now generate perfectly crafted, highly personalized messages at scale — tailored to the recipient's specific role, known colleagues, and recent organizational context.

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Statistics sourced from FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual reports, Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, and additional research cited on each individual threat page. All figures represent published data from primary sources. Individual pages include direct links to source materials.

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