Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks have emerged as serious threats to
organizations in recent years, exploiting social engineering and malware to dupe victims …

This study focuses on advance fee fraud (AFF) scamming, a specific form of online
deception in which scammers rely on social engineering techniques to deceive individuals …

Social engineering is widely recognized as the key to successful cyber-attacks. Chat-based
social engineering (CSE) attacks are attracting increasing attention because of recent …

Featured Application Methods and techniques demonstrated in this work can be used to
increase chat-based social engineering attack detection algorithms. Abstract Chat-based …

Existing research has shown that developers will use StackOverflow to answer programming
questions: but what draws them to one particular answer over any other? The choice of …

As a major component of online crime, email-based fraud is a threat that causes substantial
economic losses every year. To counteract these scammers, volunteers called scam-baiters …

Purpose Penetration tests have become a valuable tool in the cyber security defence
strategy in terms of detecting vulnerabilities. Although penetration testing has traditionally …

Account takeover is a form of online identity theft where a fraudster gains unauthorized
access to an individual's account in a given system. Depending on the system, this …

The prevention of fraud against older adults and other age groups, has been the subject of
limited research with very few systematic attempts to map different tools and strategies that …

If we have not yet achieved planetary super-villainy on the desktop, it may be feasible to fit it
into a suburban office suite. Social media and Web science permit the modern villain to …