A new direction in social network analysis: Online social network analysis problems and applications

U Can, B Alatas - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

Phishing environments, techniques, and countermeasures: A survey

A Aleroud, L Zhou - Computers & Security, 2017 - Elsevier
Phishing has become an increasing threat in online space, largely driven by the evolving
web, mobile, and social networking technologies. Previous phishing taxonomies have …

Malicious URL detection using machine learning: A survey

D Sahoo, C Liu, SCH Hoi - arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.07179, 2017 - arxiv.org
Malicious URL, aka malicious website, is a common and serious threat to cybersecurity.
Malicious URLs host unsolicited content (spam, phishing, drive-by exploits, etc.) and lure …

Detection of malicious web activity in enterprise computer networks

AM Oprea, Z Li, R Norris, KD Bowers - US Patent 9,838,407, 2017 - Google Patents
A processing device in one embodiment comprises a processor coupled to a memory and is
configured to obtain internal log data of a computer network of an enterprise, to extract …

Automating fake news detection system using multi-level voting model

S Kaur, P Kumar, P Kumaraguru - Soft Computing, 2020 - Springer
The issues of online fake news have attained an increasing eminence in the diffusion of
shaping news stories online. Misleading or unreliable information in the form of videos …

Faking sandy: characterizing and identifying fake images on twitter during hurricane sandy

A Gupta, H Lamba, P Kumaraguru, A Joshi - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
In today's world, online social media plays a vital role during real world events, especially
crisis events. There are both positive and negative effects of social media coverage of …

[PDF][PDF] Sunrise to sunset: Analyzing the end-to-end life cycle and effectiveness of phishing attacks at scale

A Oest, P Zhang, B Wardman, E Nunes… - 29th {USENIX} Security …, 2020 - usenix.org
Despite an extensive anti-phishing ecosystem, phishing attacks continue to capitalize on
gaps in detection to reach a significant volume of daily victims. In this paper, we isolate and …

An investigation of phishing awareness and education over time: When and how to best remind users

B Reinheimer, L Aldag, P Mayer, M Mossano… - … Symposium on Usable …, 2020 - usenix.org
Security awareness and education programmes are rolled out in more and more
organisations. However, their effectiveness over time and, correspondingly, appropriate …

SoK: a comprehensive reexamination of phishing research from the security perspective

A Das, S Baki, A El Aassal, R Verma… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

{PhishTime}: Continuous longitudinal measurement of the effectiveness of anti-phishing blacklists

A Oest, Y Safaei, P Zhang, B Wardman… - 29th USENIX Security …, 2020 - usenix.org
Due to their ubiquity in modern web browsers, anti-phishing blacklists are a key defense
against large-scale phishing attacks. However, sophistication in phishing websites—such as …