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In this paper, we propose a feature-free method for detecting phishing websites using the Normalized Compression Distance (NCD), a parameter-free similarity measure which computes the similarity of two websites by compressing them, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Rizka Purwanto , Arindam Pal , Alan Blair , Sanjay Jha

A focused crawler traverses the web selecting out relevant pages to a predefined topic and neglecting those out of concern. While surfing the internet it is difficult to deal with irrelevant pages and to predict which links lead to quality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Anshika Pal , Deepak Singh Tomar , S. C. Shrivastava

Mobile developers face unique challenges when detecting and reporting crashes in apps due to their prevailing GUI event-driven nature and additional sources of inputs (e.g., sensor readings). To support developers in these tasks, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vásquez , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Christopher Vendome , Denys Poshyvanyk

Phishing and spear-phishing are typical examples of masquerade attacks since trust is built up through impersonation for the attack to succeed. Given the prevalence of these attacks, considerable research has been conducted on these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Avisha Das , Shahryar Baki , Ayman El Aassal , Rakesh Verma , Arthur Dunbar

Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly deployed in cybersecurity applications such as phishing detection and network intrusion prevention. However, these models remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations small, deliberate input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Mona Rajhans , Vishal Khawarey

Social engineering attacks delivered via email, commonly known as phishing, represent a persistent cybersecurity threat leading to significant organizational incidents and data breaches. Although many organizations train employees on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Andrew T. Rozema , James C. Davis

AI-driven penetration testing agents are now capable of autonomously executing attacks within compromised networks. Identifying the model family that controls the active sessions of such agents provides valuable information towards…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Murali Ediga , Sudipta Chattopadhyay

In this paper, we introduce PhishLang, the first fully client-side anti-phishing framework built on a lightweight ensemble framework that utilizes advanced language models to analyze the contextual features of a website's source code and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Sayak Saha Roy , Shirin Nilizadeh

A large number of URLs are made public by various platforms for security analysis, archiving, and paste sharing -- such as VirusTotal, URLScan.io, Hybrid Analysis, the Wayback Machine, and RedHunt. These services may unintentionally expose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Tarek Ramadan , AbdelRahman Abdou , Mohammad Mannan , Amr Youssef

The increase in the number of phishing demands innovative solutions to safeguard users from phishing attacks. This study explores the development and utilization of a real-time browser extension integrated with machine learning model to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Akshaya Arun , Nasr Abosata

Web-TLR is a Web verification engine that is based on the well-established Rewriting Logic--Maude/LTLR tandem for Web system specification and model-checking. In Web-TLR, Web applications are expressed as rewrite theories that can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-12 María Alpuente , Demis Ballis , Javier Espert , Francisco Frechina , Daniel Romero

User demand for blocking advertising and tracking online is large and growing. Existing tools, both deployed and described in research, have proven useful, but lack either the completeness or robustness needed for a general solution.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Umar Iqbal , Peter Snyder , Shitong Zhu , Benjamin Livshits , Zhiyun Qian , Zubair Shafiq

Web scraping has historically required technical expertise in HTML parsing, session management, and authentication circumvention, which limited large-scale data extraction to skilled developers. We argue that large language models (LLMs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Arth Bhardwaj , Nirav Diwan , Gang Wang

Phishing is a type of social engineering attack with an intention to steal user data, including login credentials and credit card numbers, leading to financial losses for both organisations and individuals. It occurs when an attacker,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-02 J. Samantha Tharani , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Browser fingerprinting is an invasive and opaque stateless tracking technique. Browser vendors, academics, and standards bodies have long struggled to provide meaningful protections against browser fingerprinting that are both accurate and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Umar Iqbal , Steven Englehardt , Zubair Shafiq

In e-commerce industry, user behavior sequence data has been widely used in many business units such as search and merchandising to improve their products. However, it is rarely used in financial services not only due to its 3V…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Wei Min , Weiming Liang , Hang Yin , Zhurong Wang , Mei Li , Alok Lal

Phishing remains a pervasive cyber threat, as attackers craft deceptive emails to lure victims into revealing sensitive information. While Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular, deep learning, has become a key component in defending…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Fengchao Chen , Tingmin Wu , Van Nguyen , Shuo Wang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Carsten Rudolph

URLs are central to a myriad of cyber-security threats, from phishing to the distribution of malware. Their inherent ease of use and familiarity is continuously abused by attackers to evade defences and deceive end-users. Seemingly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Mahathir Almashor , Ejaz Ahmed , Benjamin Pick , Sharif Abuadbba , Raj Gaire , Seyit Camtepe , Surya Nepal

The increasing complexity and scale of modern digital environments have exposed significant gaps in traditional cybersecurity penetration testing methods, which are often time-consuming, labor-intensive, and unable to rapidly adapt to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Ibrahim Alshehri , Adnan Alshehri , Abdulrahman Almalki , Majed Bamardouf , Alaqsa Akbar

AI control protocols use monitors to detect attacks by untrusted AI agents, but standard single-score monitors face two limitations: they miss subtle attacks where outputs look clean but reasoning is off, and they collapse to near-zero…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Khanh Linh Nguyen , Hoa Nghiem , Tu Tran