A study on the psychology of social engineering-based cyberattacks and existing countermeasures

MA Siddiqi, W Pak, MA Siddiqi - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
As cybersecurity strategies become more robust and challenging, cybercriminals are
mutating cyberattacks to be more evasive. Recent studies have highlighted the use of social …

Social engineering in cybersecurity: Effect mechanisms, human vulnerabilities and attack methods

Z Wang, H Zhu, L Sun - Ieee Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social engineering attacks have posed a serious security threat to cyberspace. However,
there is much we have yet to know regarding what and how lead to the success of social …

User, usage and usability: Redefining human centric cyber security

M Grobler, R Gaire, S Nepal - Frontiers in big Data, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The effectiveness of cyber security measures are often questioned in the wake of hard hitting
security events. Despite much work being done in the field of cyber security, most of the …

Leveraging dialogue state tracking for zero-shot chat-based social engineering attack recognition

N Tsinganos, P Fouliras, I Mavridis - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Methods and techniques demonstrated in this work can be used to
increase the effectiveness of chat-based social engineering attack detection systems …

Utilizing convolutional neural networks and word embeddings for early-stage recognition of persuasion in chat-based social engineering attacks

N Tsinganos, I Mavridis, D Gritzalis - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Applying BERT for early-stage recognition of persistence in chat-based social engineering attacks

N Tsinganos, P Fouliras, I Mavridis - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Methods and techniques demonstrated in this work can be used to
increase the effectiveness of chat-based social engineering attack detection systems …

SEADer++: social engineering attack detection in online environments using machine learning

M Lansley, F Mouton, S Kapetanakis… - Journal of Information …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Social engineering attacks are one of the most well-known and easiest to apply attacks in
the cybersecurity domain. Research has shown that the majority of attacks against computer …

Analyzing web descriptions of cybersecurity breaches in the healthcare provider sector: A content analytics research method

I Lee - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Though the ever-increasing data breach incidents in healthcare providers are exposing their
clients' personal, financial, and medical data to cybercriminals, there is limited empirical …

Building and evaluating an annotated corpus for automated recognition of chat-based social engineering attacks

N Tsinganos, I Mavridis - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Methods and techniques demonstrated in this work can be used to
increase chat-based social engineering attack detection algorithms. Abstract Chat-based …

CSE-ARS: Deep learning-based late fusion of multimodal information for chat-based social engineering attack recognition

N Tsinganos, P Fouliras, I Mavridis, D Gritzalis - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing prevalence of chat-based social engineering (CSE) attacks targeting
unsuspecting users, the need for robust defenses has never been more critical. In this paper …