Malicious URL, aka malicious website, is a common and serious threat to cybersecurity.
Malicious URLs host unsolicited content (spam, phishing, drive-by exploits, etc.) and lure …

Phishing is a security threat which combines social engineering and website spoofing
techniques to deceive users into revealing confidential information. In this paper, we …

Malware such as banking Trojans are popular with financially-motivated cybercriminals.
Detection of banking Trojans remains a challenging task, due to the constant evolution of …

Common anti-phishing advice tells users to mouse over links, look at the URL, and compare
to the expected destination, implicitly assuming that they are able to read the URL. To test …

Targeted attacks on civil society and non-governmental organizations have gone
underreported despite the fact that these organizations have been shown to be frequent …

Obscenity (the use of rude words or offensive expressions) has spread from informal verbal
conversations to digital media, becoming increasingly common on user-generated …

Mobile application phishing happens when a malicious mobile application masquerades as
a legitimate one to steal user credentials. Personalized security indicators may help users to …

Phishing is a malicious form of online theft and needs to be prevented in order to increase
the overall trust of the public on the Internet. In this study, for that purpose, the authors …

Phishing in mobile applications is a relevant threat with successful attacks reported in the
wild. In such attacks, malicious mobile applications masquerade as legitimate ones to steal …

Application phishing attacks are rooted in users inability to distinguish legitimate
applications from malicious ones. Previous work has shown that personalized security …