France’s 17Cyber Logs 500,000 Victims as Phishing Jumps 71% in 2025

Overview

• Cybermalveillance’s annual report, published Thursday, March 26, 2026, shows assistance requests on 17Cyber rose about 20% in 2025 to more than 500,000 people helped.
• Phishing became the top threat for individuals, with requests up roughly 70–71% and now about one-third of all cases, spanning SMS, email and phone calls that often lead to account takeovers.
• Data-breach help requests more than doubled (+107%), feeding big jumps in downstream scams, including bank-transfer fraud (+170%), fake bank-advisor schemes (+159%) and bogus investments (+277%).
• Phone-number impersonation surged (+517%), and Arcep opened an administrative inquiry after a doubling of spoofing reports, focusing on whether operators properly authenticate caller IDs.
• Cyberharassment escalated across groups, with requests up 138% for individuals, 209% for local authorities and 205% for companies, as reputational attacks and abusive posts became harder to contain.