Human factors in phishing attacks: a systematic literature review

G Desolda, LS Ferro, A Marrella, T Catarci… - ACM Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information by disguising oneself as a
trustworthy entity in digital communication. It is a type of cyber attack often successful …

Don't click: towards an effective anti-phishing training. A comparative literature review

D Jampen, G Gür, T Sutter, B Tellenbach - Human-centric Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
Email is of critical importance as a communication channel for both business and personal
matters. Unfortunately, it is also often exploited for phishing attacks. To defend against such …

Why people keep falling for phishing scams: The effects of time pressure and deception cues on the detection of phishing emails

M Butavicius, R Taib, SJ Han - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Lack of personalisation and poor mechanics (eg, grammar, spelling and punctuation) are
commonly cited as cues of deception that people can use to identify phishing emails …

Personalized persuasion: Quantifying susceptibility to information exploitation in spear-phishing attacks

T Xu, K Singh, P Rajivan - Applied Ergonomics, 2023 - Elsevier
Many cyberattacks begin with a malicious email message, known as spear phishing,
targeted at unsuspecting victims. Although security technologies have improved significantly …

Sixteen years of phishing user studies: What have we learned?

S Baki, RM Verma - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several previous studies have investigated user susceptibility to phishing attacks. A
thorough meta-analysis or systematic review is required to gain a better understanding of …

Avoiding the hook: influential factors of phishing awareness training on click-rates and a data-driven approach to predict email difficulty perception

T Sutter, AS Bozkir, B Gehring, P Berlich - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phishing attacks are still seen as a significant threat to cyber security, and large parts of the
industry rely on anti-phishing simulations to minimize the risk imposed by such attacks. This …

Indicators of employee phishing email behaviours: Intuition, elaboration, attention, and email typology

J Buckley, D Lottridge, JG Murphy… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Employees' behaviour to phishing emails can strengthen or undermine business
organisations' cyber security. This phishing simulation and survey study explored the …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of formal and informal organizational norms on susceptibility to phishing: Combining survey and field experiment data

G Petrič, K Roer - Telematics and Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Phishing is one of the most common forms of social engineering that exploits human
vulnerabilities and causes immense personal and organizational costs. This study advances …

Antecedents for enhanced level of cyber-security in organisations

S Kumar, B Biswas, MS Bhatia, M Dora - Journal of Enterprise …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The present study aims to identify and investigate the antecedents of enhanced
level of cyber-security at the organisational level from both the technical and the human …

SoK: Human-centered phishing susceptibility

S Zhuo, R Biddle, YS Koh, D Lottridge… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Phishing is recognized as a serious threat to organizations and individuals. While there
have been significant technical advances in blocking phishing attacks, end-users remain the …