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This paper explores the possibility of using ChatGPT to develop advanced phishing attacks and automate their large-scale deployment. We make ChatGPT generate the following parts of a phishing attack: i) cloning a targeted website, ii)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Nils Begou , Jeremy Vinoy , Andrzej Duda , Maciej Korczynski

Social engineering attacks are a major cyber threat because they often serve as a first step for an attacker to break into an otherwise well-defended network, steal victims' credentials, and cause financial losses. The problem has received…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Theodore Longtchi , Rosana Montañez Rodriguez , Laith Al-Shawaf , Adham Atyabi , Shouhuai Xu

Capture the Flag challenges are a popular form of cybersecurity education, where students solve hands-on tasks in an informal, game-like setting. The tasks feature diverse assignments, such as exploiting websites, cracking passwords, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Valdemar Švábenský , Pavel Čeleda , Jan Vykopal , Silvia Brišáková

The majority of systems rely on user authentication on passwords, but passwords have so many weaknesses and widespread use that easily raise significant security concerns, regardless of their encrypted form. Users hold the same password for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vassilis Papaspirou , Leandros Maglaras , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Ioanna Kantzavelou , Helge Janicke , Christos Douligeris

This paper argues that a range of current AI systems have learned how to deceive humans. We define deception as the systematic inducement of false beliefs in the pursuit of some outcome other than the truth. We first survey empirical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Peter S. Park , Simon Goldstein , Aidan O'Gara , Michael Chen , Dan Hendrycks

Deep Neural Networks are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks, where minor modifications on the input are able to mislead the models to give wrong results. Although defenses against adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Kaidi Jin , Tianwei Zhang , Chao Shen , Yufei Chen , Ming Fan , Chenhao Lin , Ting Liu

Nowadays, many control systems are networked and embed communication and computation capabilities. Such control architectures are prone to cyber attacks on the cyberinfrastructure. Consequently, there is an impellent need to develop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 Mohammad Bajelani , Mehran Attar , Walter Lucia , Klaske van Heusden

Social coding platforms have revolutionized collaboration in software development, leading to using software bots for streamlining operations. However, The presence of open-source software (OSS) bots gives rise to problems including…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Fenglin Bi , Zhiwei Zhu , Wei Wang , Xiaoya Xia , Hassan Ali Khan , Peng Pu

Phishing is one of the most severe cyber-attacks where researchers are interested to find a solution. In phishing, attackers lure end-users and steal their personal in-formation. To minimize the damage caused by phishing must be detected as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-07 P. Kalaharsha , B. M. Mehtre

Social bots play a significant role in many online social networks (OSN) as they imitate human behavior. This fact raises difficult questions about their capabilities and potential risks. Given the recent advances in Generative AI (GenAI),…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Shaghayegh Najari , Davood Rafiee , Mostafa Salehi , Reza Farahbakhsh

The most widespread type of phishing attack involves email messages with links pointing to malicious content. Despite user training and the use of detection techniques, these attacks are still highly effective. Recent studies show that it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Daniele Lain , Yoshimichi Nakatsuka , Kari Kostiainen , Gene Tsudik , Srdjan Capkun

The incremental diffusion of machine learning algorithms in supporting cybersecurity is creating novel defensive opportunities but also new types of risks. Multiple researches have shown that machine learning methods are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Luca Ferretti , Mirco Marchetti , Michele Colajanni

Email is a channel of communication which is considered to be a confidential medium of communication for exchange of information among individuals and organisations. The confidentiality consideration about e-mail is no longer the case as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Nmachi Peace Wosah , Thomas Win

With the advances in information technology (IT) criminals are using cyberspace to commit numerous cyber crimes. Cyber infrastructures are highly vulnerable to intrusions and other threats. Physical devices and human intervention are not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Selma Dilek , Hüseyin Çakır , Mustafa Aydın

Debuggers are a popular reverse engineering and tampering tool. Self-debugging is an effective technique for applications to defend themselves against hostile debuggers. In penetration tests on state-of-the-art self-debugging, we observed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Bert Abrath , Bart Coppens , Ilja Nevolin , Bjorn De Sutter

Social engineering cyberattacks are a major threat because they often prelude sophisticated and devastating cyberattacks. Social engineering cyberattacks are a kind of psychological attack that exploits weaknesses in human cognitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Rosana Montanez Rodriguez , Edward Golob , Shouhuai Xu

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining popularity as individuals, groups, and organizations discover and apply its expanding capabilities. Generative AI creates or alters various content types including text, image, audio, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 LD Herrera , London Van Sickle , Ashley Podhradsky

The Turing test aimed to recognize the behavior of a human from that of a computer algorithm. Such challenge is more relevant than ever in today's social media context, where limited attention and technology constrain the expressive power…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Emilio Ferrara , Onur Varol , Clayton Davis , Filippo Menczer , Alessandro Flammini

Simulating hostile attacks of physical autonomous systems can be a useful tool to examine their robustness to attack and inform vulnerability-aware design. In this work, we examine this through the lens of multi-robot patrol, by presenting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 James C. Ward , Alex Bott , Connor York , Edmund R. Hunt

With increasing technology developments, there is a massive number of websites with varying purposes. But a particular type exists within this large collection, the so-called phishing sites which aim to deceive their users. The main…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Almaha Abuzuraiq , Mouhammd Alkasassbeh , Mohammad Almseidin