Phishing attacks reported annually (worldwide)

Worldwide phishing attacks and American rent, both climbing past historic norms. Two trends that arrive in your life monthly, neither welcome, neither responding to your protests. The graphs share an attitude.

Global phishing attacks reported annually grew sharply across this window as bot-driven scams scaled and AI-assisted social engineering matured. US median monthly rent climbed from about 1,400 to over 1,950 dollars in the same window as housing supply lagged demand. Two completely unrelated lines sharing a window because the same eight years scaled both automated-fraud volume and the cost of housing, with neither category showing much sign of decompressing. Different inboxes, different invoices.

Both arrive every month. Both are difficult to negotiate down. Some lines simply do not turn around when asked.