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Spam and phishing remain critical threats in cybersecurity, responsible for nearly 90% of security incidents. As these attacks grow in sophistication, the need for robust defensive mechanisms intensifies. Bayesian spam filters, like the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Malte Josten , Torben Weis

Phishing and spam detection is long standing challenge that has been the subject of much academic research. Large Language Models (LLM) have vast potential to transform society and provide new and innovative approaches to solve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Suhaima Jamal , Hayden Wimmer

The popularity, cost-effectiveness and ease of information exchange that electronic mails offer to electronic device users has been plagued with the rising number of unsolicited or spam emails. Driven by the need to protect email users from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ismail B. Mustapha , Shafaatunnur Hasan , Sunday O. Olatunji , Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin , Afolabi Kazeem

Phishing attacks are one of the trending cyber attacks that apply socially engineered messages that are communicated to people from professional hackers aiming at fooling users to reveal their sensitive information, the most popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Adwan Yasin , Abdelmunem Abuhasan

Image spam threat detection has continually been a popular area of research with the internet's phenomenal expansion. This research presents an explainable framework for detecting spam images using Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Zhibo Zhang , Ernesto Damiani , Hussam Al Hamadi , Chan Yeob Yeun , Fatma Taher

This paper investigates the application of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for spam email classification using zero-shot prompting. We evaluate the performance of both open-source (Flan-T5) and proprietary LLMs (ChatGPT, GPT-4) on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Sergio Rojas-Galeano

The proliferation of phishing sites and emails poses significant challenges to existing cybersecurity efforts. Despite advances in malicious email filters and email security protocols, problems with oversight and false positives persist.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Takashi Koide , Naoki Fukushi , Hiroki Nakano , Daiki Chiba

Unsolicited email (spam) is still a problem for users of the email service. Even though current email anti-spam solutions filter most spam emails, some spam emails still are delivered to the inbox of users. A special class of spam emails…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Alexander Schmidtke , Hans-Joachim Hof

Web spam is a big problem for search engine users in World Wide Web. They use deceptive techniques to achieve high rankings. Although many researchers have presented the different approach for classification and web spam detection still it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Hamed Jelodar , Yongli Wang , Chi Yuan , Xiaohui Jiang

Spam costs US corporations upwards of $8.9 billion a year, and comprises as much as 40% of all email received. Solutions exist to reduce the amount of spam seen by end users, but cannot withstand sophisticated attacks. Worse yet, many will…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Evan P. Greenberg , David R. Cheriton

There is a tremendous increase in spam traffic these days. Spam messages muddle up users inbox, consume network resources, and build up DDoS attacks, spread worms and viruses. Our goal is to present a definite figure about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Cynthia Dhinakaran , Dhinaharan Nagamalai , Jae Kwang Lee

Spam filters are a crucial component of modern email systems, as they help to protect users from unwanted and potentially harmful emails. However, the effectiveness of these filters is dependent on the quality of the machine learning models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Swagnik Roychoudhury , Akshaj Kumar Veldanda

Phishing attacks remain among the most prevalent cybersecurity threats, causing significant financial losses for individuals and organizations worldwide. This paper presents a machine learning-based phishing email detection system that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Amitabh Chakravorty , Matthew Price , Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained prominence in various applications, including security. This paper explores the utility of LLMs in scam detection, a critical aspect of cybersecurity. Unlike traditional applications, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Liming Jiang

Phishing has long been a common tactic used by cybercriminals and continues to pose a significant threat in today's digital world. When phishing attacks become more advanced and sophisticated, there is an increasing need for effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Catherine Lee

Spam messages muddle up users inbox, consume network resources, and build up DDoS attacks, spread malware. Our goal is to present a definite figure about the characteristics of spam and spam vulnerable email accounts. These evaluations help…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Cynthia Dhinakaran , Dhinaharan Nagamalai , Jae Kwang Lee

Machine unlearning for security is studied in this context. Several spam email detection methods exist, each of which employs a different algorithm to detect undesired spam emails. But these models are vulnerable to attacks. Many attackers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Nishchal Parne , Kyathi Puppaala , Nithish Bhupathi , Ripon Patgiri

In This paper we present a novel approach to spam filtering and demonstrate its applicability with respect to SMS messages. Our approach requires minimum features engineering and a small set of la- belled data samples. Features are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Noura Al Moubayed , Toby Breckon , Peter Matthews , A. Stephen McGough

In this paper we discuss the techniques involved in the design of the famous statistical spam filters that include Naive Bayes, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency, K-Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machine, and Bayes Additive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-10-15 M. Tariq Banday , Tariq R. Jan

The identification of spam messages on social networks is a very challenging task. Social media sites like Twitter \& Facebook attracts a lot of users and companies to advertise and attract users of personal gains. These advertisements most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Prakamya Mishra