Phoolproof Phishing Prevention

Analysis and Improvement of Anti-Phishing Schemes

The problem of phishing has attracted considerable attention recently, and a number of solutions and enhanced security measures have been proposed. We perform a detailed analysis of several antiphishing schemes, and attacks and improvements. While several antiphishing technologies address commonly observed phishing tactics, the space evolves rapidly, and a good prevention technique should be ro...

Automated Test Case Generator for Phishing Prevention Using Generative Grammars and Discriminative Methods

Tracking Phishing Attacks Over Time

The so-called “phishing” attacks are one of the important threats to individuals and corporations in today’s Internet. Combatting phishing is thus a top-priority, and has been the focus of much work, both on the academic and on the industry sides. In this paper, we look at this problem from a new angle. We have monitored a total of 19,066 phishing attacks over a period of ten months and found t...

Comparing Victims of Phishing and Malware Attacks: Unraveling Risk Factors and Possibilities for Situational Crime Prevention

This paper compares the risk factors for becoming a victim of two types of phishing: high-tech phishing (using malicious software) and low-tech phishing (using e-mails and telephone calls). These risk factors are linked to possibilities for situational crime prevention. Data from a cybercrime victim survey in the Netherlands (n=10,316) is used. Based on routine activity theory, the multivariate...

Experimental Case Studies for Investigating E-Banking Phishing Intelligent Techniques and Attack Strategies

Phishing is a form of electronic identity theft in which a combination of social engineering and web site spoofing techniques are used to trick a user into revealing confidential information with economic value. The problem of social engineering attack is that there is no single solution to eliminate it completely, since it deals largely with the human factor. This is why implementing empirical...