Phishing and Countermeasures: Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft

By Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers. 2006

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems

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PhishEye: Live Monitoring of Sandboxed Phishing Kits (2016, background): “Our study presents accurate measurements of the duration and effectiveness of this popular threat, and discusses many new and interesting aspects we observed by monitoring hundreds of phishing campaigns.”
High-performance content-based phishing attack detection (2011, background): “However, AOL responded to this hack with new, stronger authentication measures that linked credit card numbers to legitimate users [1].”
Anti-Phishing Phil: the design and evaluation of a game that teaches people not to fall for phish (2007, background): “These increasingly sophisticated attacks not only spoof email and web sites, but they can also spoof parts of a user’s web browser [17].”
The Plight of the Targeted Attacker in a World of Scale (2010, background): “An example of a non-scalable attacks is spear phishing, where a personalized phishing email is sent to each recipient [32].”
Examining the impact of website take-down on phishing (2007, background): “The academic work on phishing has been diverse, with a useful starting point being Jakobsson and Myers’ book [6].”
Phishing Attacks: A Recent Comprehensive Study and a New Anatomy (2021, methodology): “Web Trojans are malicious programs that collect user ’ s credentials by popping up in a hidden way over the login screen (Jakobsson and Myers, 2006).”
A Research Agenda Acknowledging the Persistence of Passwords (2012, background): “We highlight the need for more systematic research, and how the premature conclusion that passwords are dead has lead to the neglect of important research questions.”
Emerging phishing trends and effectiveness of the anti-phishing landing page (2014, background): “One interesting form of Internet fraud is phishing; Phishing is the act of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication [22].”