[HTML][HTML] A study on the psychology of social engineering-based cyberattacks and existing countermeasures

MA Siddiqi, W Pak, MA Siddiqi - Applied Sciences, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
As cybersecurity strategies become more robust and challenging, cybercriminals are
mutating cyberattacks to be more evasive. Recent studies have highlighted the use of social …

Review and insight on the behavioral aspects of cybersecurity

RA Maalem Lahcen, B Caulkins, R Mohapatra… - Cybersecurity, 2020‏ - Springer
Stories of cyber attacks are becoming a routine in which cyber attackers show new levels of
intention by sophisticated attacks on networks. Unfortunately, cybercriminals have figured …

Social engineering in cybersecurity: Effect mechanisms, human vulnerabilities and attack methods

Z Wang, H Zhu, L Sun - Ieee Access, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social engineering attacks have posed a serious security threat to cyberspace. However,
there is much we have yet to know regarding what and how lead to the success of social …

Susceptibility to phishing on social network sites: A personality information processing model

ED Frauenstein, S Flowerday - Computers & security, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Today, the traditional approach used to conduct phishing attacks through email and spoofed
websites has evolved to include social network sites (SNSs). This is because phishers are …

GramBeddings: a new neural network for URL based identification of phishing web pages through n-gram embeddings

AS Bozkir, FC Dalgic, M Aydos - Computers & Security, 2023‏ - Elsevier
There has been ever-growing use of Internet and progress within many communication
channels such as social media and this escalates the need for rapid and low source …

Human cognition through the lens of social engineering cyberattacks

R Montañez, E Golob, S Xu - Frontiers in psychology, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Social engineering cyberattacks are a major threat because they often prelude sophisticated
and devastating cyberattacks. Social engineering cyberattacks are a kind of psychological …

Internet-based social engineering psychology, attacks, and defenses: A survey

TT Longtchi, RM Rodriguez, L Al-Shawaf… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet-based social engineering (SE) attacks are a major cyber threat. These attacks often
serve as the first step in a sophisticated sequence of attacks that target, among other things …

[HTML][HTML] Which factors predict susceptibility to phishing? An empirical study

L Ribeiro, IS Guedes, CS Cardoso - Computers & Security, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Phishing is a cybercrime in active growth that victimizes a large number of individuals and
organizations. To explore which individual and contextual factors predict phishing …

Email phishing and signal detection: How persuasion principles and personality influence response patterns and accuracy

P Lawson, CJ Pearson, A Crowson, CB Mayhorn - Applied ergonomics, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Phishing is a social engineering tactic where a malicious actor impersonates a trustworthy
third party with the intention of tricking the user into divulging sensitive information. Previous …

Persuasion: How phishing emails can influence users and bypass security measures

A Ferreira, S Teles - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Phishing is a very dangerous form of social engineering with the aim to deceive people into
disclosing private/confidential information. Despite widespread warnings and means to …