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 …

The psychology of internet fraud victimisation: A systematic review

G Norris, A Brookes, D Dowell - Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 2019 - Springer
Existing theories of fraud provide some insight into how criminals target and exploit people
in the online environment; whilst reference to psychological explanations is common, the …

When going digital becomes a necessity: Ensuring older adults' needs for information, services, and social inclusion during COVID-19

B Xie, N Charness, K Fingerman, J Kaye… - Older Adults and …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Older adults are in triple jeopardy during COVID-19: compared with younger people, older
adults are (1) more likely to develop serious conditions and experience higher mortality;(2) …

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 …

Susceptibility to spear-phishing emails: Effects of internet user demographics and email content

T Lin, DE Capecci, DM Ellis, HA Rocha… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Phishing is fundamental to cyber attacks. This research determined the effect of Internet user
age and email content such as weapons of influence (persuasive techniques that attackers …

Cybersecurity awareness enhancement: a study of the effects of age and gender of Thai employees associated with phishing attacks

T Daengsi, P Pornpongtechavanich… - Education and …, 2022 - Springer
Cybersecurity is crucial at present because cyber threats (eg, phishing) have become a very
common occurrence in everyday life. A literature review showed that there are no studies …

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 …

The role of cue utilization in the detection of phishing emails

D Sturman, C Valenzuela, O Plate, T Tanvir, JC Auton… - Applied Ergonomics, 2023 - Elsevier
This study was designed to examine the roles of cue utilization, phishing features and time
pressure in the detection of phishing emails. During two experiments, participants completed …

[HTML][HTML] Analytical reasoning reduces internet fraud susceptibility

NJ Kelley, AL Hurley-Wallace, KL Warner… - Computers in Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fake websites extract an enormous financial and psychological toll on consumers across
the globe, with some estimates reaching billions of dollars each year. Yet, there is a paucity …

The psychology of the internet fraud victimization of older adults: A systematic review

Y Shang, Z Wu, X Du, Y Jiang, B Ma, M Chi - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Criminals targeting and exploiting older adults in online environments are of great concern.
This study systematically retrieved and analyzed articles on the psychological characteristics …