A comprehensive survey of recent internet measurement techniques for cyber security

MS Pour, C Nader, K Friday, E Bou-Harb - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

Don't click: towards an effective anti-phishing training. A comparative literature review

D Jampen, G Gür, T Sutter, B Tellenbach - Human-centric Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
Email is of critical importance as a communication channel for both business and personal
matters. Unfortunately, it is also often exploited for phishing attacks. To defend against such …

The role of machine learning in cybersecurity

G Apruzzese, P Laskov, E Montes de Oca… - … Threats: Research and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Machine Learning (ML) represents a pivotal technology for current and future information
systems, and many domains already leverage the capabilities of ML. However, deployment …

Phishing or not phishing? A survey on the detection of phishing websites

R Zieni, L Massari, MC Calzarossa - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phishing is a security threat with serious effects on individuals as well as on the targeted
brands. Although this threat has been around for quite a long time, it is still very active and …

Measuring and modeling the label dynamics of online {Anti-Malware} engines

S Zhu, J Shi, L Yang, B Qin, Z Zhang, L Song… - 29th USENIX Security …, 2020 - usenix.org
VirusTotal provides malware labels from a large set of anti-malware engines, and is heavily
used by researchers for malware annotation and system evaluation. Since different engines …

[PDF][PDF] Sunrise to sunset: Analyzing the end-to-end life cycle and effectiveness of phishing attacks at scale

A Oest, P Zhang, B Wardman, E Nunes… - 29th {USENIX} Security …, 2020 - usenix.org
Despite an extensive anti-phishing ecosystem, phishing attacks continue to capitalize on
gaps in detection to reach a significant volume of daily victims. In this paper, we isolate and …

{PhishTime}: Continuous longitudinal measurement of the effectiveness of anti-phishing blacklists

A Oest, Y Safaei, P Zhang, B Wardman… - 29th USENIX Security …, 2020 - usenix.org
Due to their ubiquity in modern web browsers, anti-phishing blacklists are a key defense
against large-scale phishing attacks. However, sophistication in phishing websites—such as …

Opening the blackbox of virustotal: Analyzing online phishing scan engines

P Peng, L Yang, L Song, G Wang - Proceedings of the Internet …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Online scan engines such as VirusTotal are heavily used by researchers to label malicious
URLs and files. Unfortunately, it is not well understood how the labels are generated and …

Characterizing cryptocurrency exchange scams

P Xia, H Wang, B Zhang, R Ji, B Gao, L Wu, X Luo… - Computers & …, 2020 - Elsevier
As the indispensable trading platforms of the ecosystem, hundreds of cryptocurrency
exchanges are emerging to facilitate the trading of digital assets. While, it also attracts the …

{SoK}: Still Plenty of Phish in the Sea—A Taxonomy of {User-Oriented} Phishing Interventions and Avenues for Future Research

A Franz, V Zimmermann, G Albrecht, K Hartwig… - … Symposium on Usable …, 2021 - usenix.org
Phishing is a prevalent cyber threat, targeting individuals and organizations alike. Previous
approaches on anti-phishing measures have started to recognize the role of the user, who …