Identifying phishing attacks in communication networks using URL consistency features
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Date
2019
Authors
Azeez, N
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InderScience
Abstract
Phishing is a fraudulent attempt by cybercriminals, where the target audience is addressed by a text message, phone call or e-mail, requesting classified and sensitive information after presenting himself/herself as a clegitimate agent. Successful phishing attack may result into financial loss and identity theft. Identifying forensic characteristics of phishing attack can help to detect the attack and its perpetuators and as well as to enable defense against it.
To shield internet users from phishing assaults, numerous anti-phishing models have been proposed. Currently employed techniques to handle these challenges are not sufficient and capable enough. We aim at identifying phishing sites in
order to guard internet users from being vulnerable to any form of phishing attacks by verifying the conceptual and literal consistency between the uniform resource locator (URL) and the web content. The implementation of the
proposed PhishDetect method achieves an accuracy of 99.1%; indicating that it is effective in detecting various forms of phishing attacks.
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Staff Publications
Keywords
Phishing attacks , Risk assessment , Cybersecurity , Digital evidence , Research Subject Categories::TECHNOLOGY::Information technology
Citation
Azeez, N.A [Et...al] (2019) "Identifying Phishing Attacks in Communication Networks using URL Consistency Features" International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics (InderScience).