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 …

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 …

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 …

Smishing Detector: A security model to detect smishing through SMS content analysis and URL behavior analysis

S Mishra, D Soni - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Smartphone's popularity and their constant connectivity to the World Wide Web have made
these devices vulnerable to phishing and smishing attacks. Phishing is a practice of sending …

User experiences of torpedo: Tooltip-powered phishing email detection

M Volkamer, K Renaud, B Reinheimer, A Kunz - Computers & Security, 2017 - Elsevier
We propose a concept called TORPEDO to improve phish detection by providing just-in-time
and just-in-place trustworthy tooltips. These help people to identify phish links embedded in …

Unpacking spear phishing susceptibility

Z Benenson, F Gassmann, R Landwirth - … , and TA, Sliema, Malta, April 7 …, 2017 - Springer
We report the results of a field experiment where we sent to over 1200 university students an
email or a Facebook message with a link to (non-existing) party pictures from a non-existing …

Effectiveness of and user preferences for security awareness training methodologies

KF Tschakert, S Ngamsuriyaroj - Heliyon, 2019 - cell.com
Phishing is a primary vector used in cyber-attacks, and current technical measures are not
sufficient to reduce their success to an acceptable level. Empowering users to identify …

SmiDCA: an anti-smishing model with machine learning approach

G Sonowal, KS Kuppusamy - The Computer Journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Phishing has become a serious cyber-security issue, and it is spreading through various
media such as e-mail, SMS to capture the victim's critical profile information. Although many …

Teaching phishing-security: which way is best?

S Stockhardt, B Reinheimer, M Volkamer… - ICT Systems Security …, 2016 - Springer
Ever more processes of our daily lives are shifting into the digital realm. Consequently, users
face a variety of IT-security threats with possibly severe ramifications. It has been shown that …

[HTML][HTML] Taking 5 minutes protects you for 5 months: Evaluating an anti-phishing awareness video

BM Berens, M Mossano, M Volkamer - Computers & Security, 2024 - Elsevier
Phishing is one of the biggest security threats to organizations. Anti-phishing awareness
measures can improve phishing email detection rates. These measures need to be efficient …