As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

Machine learning (ML) systems are rapidly increasing in size, are acquiring new
capabilities, and are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings. As with other powerful …

The interdisciplinarity of the Social Engineering (SE) domain creates crucial challenges for
the development and advancement of empirical SE research, making it particularly difficult to …

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 …

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 …

Phishing is a critical threat to Internet users. Although an extensive ecosystem serves to
protect users, phishing websites are growing in sophistication, and they can slip past the …

Many cyberattacks begin with a malicious email message, known as spear phishing,
targeted at unsuspecting victims. Although security technologies have improved significantly …

Edge streams are commonly used to capture interactions in dynamic networks, such as
email, social, or computer networks. The problem of detecting anomalies or rare events in …

As the COVID-19 pandemic started triggering widespread lockdowns across the globe,
cybercriminals did not hesitate to take advantage of users' increased usage of the Internet …

In this study, we provide extensive analysis of the (unique) characteristics of phishing and
spear-phishing attacks, argue that spear-phishing attacks cannot be well captured by current …