The COVID‐19 scamdemic: A survey of phishing attacks and their countermeasures during COVID‐19

AF Al‐Qahtani, S Cresci - IET Information Security, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic coincided with an equally‐threatening scamdemic: a global
epidemic of scams and frauds. The unprecedented cybersecurity concerns emerged during …

Cognition in social engineering empirical research: a systematic literature review

P Burda, L Allodi, N Zannone - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The interdisciplinarity of the Social Engineering (SE) domain creates crucial challenges for
the development and advancement of empirical SE research, making it particularly difficult to …

Phishing in organizations: Findings from a large-scale and long-term study

D Lain, K Kostiainen, S Čapkun - 2022 IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present findings from a largescale and long-term phishing experiment that
we conducted in collaboration with a partner company. Our experiment ran for 15 months …

[PDF][PDF] Double and nothing: Understanding and detecting cryptocurrency giveaway scams

X Li, A Yepuri, N Nikiforakis - … of the Network and Distributed System …, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
As cryptocurrencies increase in popularity and users obtain and manage their own assets,
attackers are pivoting from just abusing cryptocurrencies as a payment mechanism, to …

Multimodel phishing url detection using lstm, bidirectional lstm, and gru models

SS Roy, AI Awad, LA Amare, MT Erkihun, M Anas - Future Internet, 2022 - mdpi.com
In today's world, phishing attacks are gradually increasing, resulting in individuals losing
valuables, assets, personal information, etc., to unauthorized parties. In phishing, attackers …

Checking, nudging or scoring? Evaluating e-mail user security tools

SY Zheng, I Becker - Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and …, 2023 - usenix.org
Phishing e-mail threats are increasing in sophistication. Technical measures alone do not
fully prevent users from falling for them and common e-mail interfaces provide little support …

[HTML][HTML] The development of phishing during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of over 1100 targeted domains

R Hoheisel, G van Capelleveen, DK Sarmah… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
To design preventive policy measures for email phishing, it is helpful to be aware of the
phishing schemes and trends that are currently applied. How phishing schemes and …

Phishing detection leveraging machine learning and deep learning: A review

DM Divakaran, A Oest - IEEE Security & Privacy, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phishing attacks trick victims into disclosing sensitive information. To counter them, we
explore machine learning and deep learning models leveraging large-scale data. We …

Characterizing the VPN Ecosystem in the Wild

A Maghsoudlou, L Vermeulen, I Poese… - … Conference on Passive …, 2023 - Springer
With the increase of remote working during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) around the world has nearly doubled. Therefore, measuring …

Hel** hands: Measuring the impact of a large threat intelligence sharing community

X Bouwman, V Le Pochat, P Foremski… - 31st USENIX Security …, 2022 - usenix.org
We tracked the largest volunteer security information sharing community known to date: the
COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition, with over 4,000 members. This enabled us to address …