Baiting the hook: factors impacting susceptibility to phishing attacks

Baiting the Hook: Targeting Economic Development Monies More Effectively

A Phishing Model and Its Applications to Evaluating Phishing Attacks

Phishing is a growing threat to Internet users and causes billions of dollars in damage every year. In this paper, we present a theoretical yet practical model to study this threat in a formal manner. While it is folklore knowledge that a successful phishing attack entails creating messages that are indistinguishable from the natural, expected messages by the intended victim, this concept has n...

QRishing: The Susceptibility of Smartphone Users to QR Code Phishing Attacks

The matrix barcodes known as Quick Response (QR) codes are rapidly becoming pervasive in urban environments around the world. QR codes are used to represent data, such as a web address, in a compact form that can be readily scanned and parsed by consumer mobile devices. They are popular with marketers because of their ease in deployment and use. However, this technology encourages mobile users ...

QRishing: The Susceptibility of Smartphone Users to QR Code Phishing Attacks (CMU-CyLab-12-022)

The matrix barcodes known as Quick Response (QR) codes are rapidly becoming pervasive in urban environments around the world. QR codes are used to represent data, such as a web address, in a compact form that can be readily scanned and parsed by consumer mobile devices. They are popular with marketers because of their ease in deployment and use. However, this technology encourages mobile users ...

CERT strategy to deal with phishing attacks

Every day, internet thieves employ new ways to obtain personal identity people and get access to their personal information. Phishing is a somehow complex method that has recently been considered by internet thieves. First, the present study aims to explain phishing, and why an organization should deal with it and its challenges of providing. In addition, different kinds of this attack and clas...