Sources and references
Our content relies on publications from public bodies and recognized institutions. This page says which ones, and above all where to turn if you are affected right now.
Are you the victim of a scam?
cybersecu.app is a training site: we don't intervene on a compromised account and don't report anything on your behalf. Contact the competent bodies directly.
The services below are French. Outside France, start with your bank, then your country's police and its consumer or data protection authorities.
- Your bank
- In a banking fraud, it is the first call to make, before anything else: blocking your card limits the damage. Use the number on the back of your card, never a number received in a message.
- Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr
- France's national assistance service for victims of cybercrime: diagnosis, advice, and referral to service providers.
- 33700
- The French number for reporting fraudulent text messages and calls: forward the suspicious text to 33700.
- PHAROS — internet-signalement.gouv.fr
- France's official platform for reporting illegal content and behavior published online. A report is neither a police complaint nor an emergency call: in immediate danger, call emergency services (17 in France).
- CNIL
- The French data protection authority: where to turn if your personal data is misused.
Reference bodies
The public work of these bodies informs our pages. We cite them page by page, with a link to the publication concerned, rather than pointing to this list as a whole.
- ANSSI
- France's national cybersecurity agency.
- Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr
- Publishes threat guides and an annual activity report documenting the requests it receives in France.
- ENISA
- The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity; annual threat landscape reports.
- Europol
- The European Union's law enforcement cooperation agency; analyses of organized online crime.
- CISA
- The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; alerts and practical guides.
- FBI IC3
- The US Internet Crime Complaint Center; annual report on reported fraud.
- OWASP
- The reference foundation for web application security.
- Unicode Consortium
- Publishes the specifications on visually confusable characters that underpin homoglyph attacks.
Our citation rules
- A figure published on this site comes with a link to its source.
- We don't cite a source to support a statement it does not actually support.
- When information from an official body contradicts ours, theirs prevails.
The details of how content is produced and published are on the editorial methodology page.