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Phishing is a semantic attack which targets the user rather than the computer. It is a new Internet crime in comparison with other forms such as virus and hacking. Considering the damage phishing websites has caused to various economies by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Nancy C. Woods , Virtue Ene Agada , Adebola K. Ojo

Many cyberattacks start with disseminating phishing URLs. When clicking these phishing URLs, the victim's private information is leaked to the attacker. There have been proposed several machine learning methods to detect phishing URLs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Taeri Kim , Noseong Park , Jiwon Hong , Sang-Wook Kim

The large-scale deployment of modern phishing attacks relies on the automatic exploitation of vulnerable websites in the wild, to maximize profit while hindering attack traceability, detection and blacklisting. To the best of our knowledge,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Igino Corona , Battista Biggio , Matteo Contini , Luca Piras , Roberto Corda , Mauro Mereu , Guido Mureddu , Davide Ariu , Fabio Roli

Digital inequality remains a significant barrier for many older adults, limiting their ability to navigate online spaces securely and confidently while increasing their susceptibility to cyber threats. In response, we propose a novel…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jacob Camilleri , Ashley Sheil , Michelle O'Keeffe , Moya Cronin , Melanie Gruben , Hazel Murray

Phishing is a prevalent cyberattack that uses look-alike websites to deceive users into revealing sensitive information. Numerous efforts have been made by the Internet community and security organizations to detect, prevent, or train users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Gaurav Varshney , Akanksha Raj , Divya Sangwan , Sharif Abuadbba , Rina Mishra , Yansong Gao

Phishing is one of the most prevalent and expensive types of cybercrime faced by organizations and individuals worldwide. Most prior research has focused on various technical features and traditional representations of text to characterize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tarini Saka , Rachiyta Jain , Kami Vaniea , Nadin Kökciyan

Users are the last line of defense as phishing emails pass filter mechanisms. At the same time, phishing emails are designed so that they are challenging to identify by users. To this end, attackers employ techniques, such as eliciting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yasmeen Abdrabou , Felix Dietz , Ahmed Shams , Pascal Knierim , Yomna Abdelrahman , Ken Pfeuffer , Mariam Hassib , Florian Alt

In this paper, we present findings from a large-scale and long-term phishing experiment that we conducted in collaboration with a partner company. Our experiment ran for 15 months during which time more than 14,000 study participants…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Daniele Lain , Kari Kostiainen , Srdjan Capkun

The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is a decentralized computing engine. It enables the Ethereum blockchain to execute smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps). The increasing adoption of Ethereum sparked the rise of phishing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Pasquale De Rosa , Simon Queyrut , Yérom-David Bromberg , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

In 2024, the Anti-Phishing Work Group identified over one million phishing pages. Phishers achieve this scale by using phishing kits -- ready-to-deploy phishing websites -- to rapidly deploy phishing campaigns with specific data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Aleksandr Nahapetyan , Kanv Khare , Kevin Schwarz , Bradley Reaves , Alexandros Kapravelos

Phishing websites remain a persistent cybersecurity threat by mimicking legitimate sites to steal sensitive user information. Existing machine learning-based detection methods often rely on supervised learning with labeled data, which not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Wenhao Li , Selvakumar Manickam , Yung-Wey Chong , Shankar Karuppayah , Priyadarsi Nanda , Binyong Li

The proliferation of mobile devices and online interactions have been threatened by different cyberattacks, where phishing attacks and malicious Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) pose significant risks to user security. Traditional phishing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Wenye Guo , Qun Wang , Hao Yue , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu

Background: Explainability in phishing detection model can support a further solution of phishing attack mitigation by increasing trust and understanding how phishing can be detected. Objective: The aims of this study to determine and best…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Abdullah Fajar , Setiadi Yazid , Indra Budi

Recently, we can observe a significant increase of the phishing attacks in the Internet. In a typical phishing attack, the attacker sets up a malicious website that looks similar to the legitimate website in order to obtain the end-users'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zijiang Yang

This study extends the research of Ferreira and Teles (2019), who synthesized works by Cialdini (2007), Gragg (2003), and Stajano and Wilson (2011) to propose a unique list of persuasion principles in social engineering. While Ferreira and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kalam Khadka

Nowadays, cybersecurity is crucial. Therefore, cybersecurity awareness should be a concern for businesses, particularly critical infrastructure organizations. The results of this study, using simulated phishing attacks, indicate that in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Patsita Sirawongphatsara , Phisit Pornpongtechavanich , Nattapong Phanthuna , Therdpong Daengsi

Phishing attacks are a major threat to online security, exploiting user vulnerabilities to steal sensitive information. Various methods have been developed to counteract phishing, each with varying levels of accuracy, but they also face…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Tri Cao , Chengyu Huang , Yuexin Li , Huilin Wang , Amy He , Nay Oo , Bryan Hooi

Phishing remains one of the most pervasive cybersecurity threats, shifting the focus from technological vulnerabilities to human cognitive and psychological factors. In coherence with the trend of studies on phishing to increasingly focus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Valeria Formisano , Danilo Gentile , Gennaro Esposito Mocerino , Michela Ponticorvo , Luigi Gallo , Alessio Botta , Davide Marocco

In this paper a novel system for detecting meaningful deviations in a mobile application's network behavior is proposed. The main goal of the proposed system is to protect mobile device users and cellular infrastructure companies from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-07 L. Chekina , D. Mimran , L. Rokach , Y. Elovici , B. Shapira

The growth of digitalization services via web browsers has simplified our daily routine of doing business. But at the same time, it has made the web browser very attractive for several cyber-attacks. Web phishing is a well-known cyberattack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Leand Thaqi , Arbnor Halili , Kamer Vishi , Blerim Rexha