Detecting Phishing Attacks In Purchasing Process Through Proactive Approach

Multilayer Approach to Defend Phishing Attacks

Spam messes up users inbox, consumes resources and spread attacks like DDoS, MiM, phishing etc. Phishing is a byproduct of email and causes financial loss to users and loss of reputation to financial institutions. In this paper we examine the characteristics of phishing and technology used by Phishers. In order to counter anti-phishing technology, phishers change their mode of operation; theref...

Combating Phishing Attacks: A Knowledge Management Approach

This paper explores how an organization can utilize its employees to combat phishing attacks collectively through coordinating their activities to create a human firewall. We utilize knowledge management research on knowledge sharing to guide the design of an experiment that explores a central reporting and dissemination platform for phishing attacks. The 2x2 experiment tests the effects of pub...

Catching Phish: Detecting Phishing Attacks From Rendered Website Images

This paper proposes a computer vision based approach for defending against the pandemic threat of phishing, a social engineering attack on personal identity and property. Presently, many layers of defense exist, but there is no general solution. Our proposal is intended to complement existing strategies. We examine the problem of relying only on images of rendered web pages to identify phishing...

Hybrid Intelligent Approach in Prediction of Phishing Attacks

Distributed Phishing Attacks

We identify and describe a new type of phishing attack that circumvents what is probably today’s most efficient defense mechanism in the war against phishing, namely the shutting down of sites run by the phisher. This attack is carried out using what we call a distributed phishing attack (DPA). The attack works by a per-victim personalization of the location of sites collecting credentials and ...