A Comprehensive Study of Phishing Attacks (original) (raw)

IJERT-A Survey on various Phishing and Anti-Phishing Measures

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2015

https://www.ijert.org/a-survey-on-various-phishing-and-anti-phishing-measures https://www.ijert.org/research/a-survey-on-various-phishing-and-anti-phishing-measures-IJERTV4IS010143.pdf Phishing, a semantic attack which targets the user rather than the computer is turning into a breeding ground for vast fraudulency over the internet; and therefore is one of the most challenges toward internet security. Phishing is a way in which perpetrators adopt social engineering schemes by sending e-mails, instant messages or online advertising to allure users to phishing websites that mimic trustworthy websites in order to trick individuals into revealing their sensitive information like, financial account details or passwords which can then be exploited for a specific reason. To protect users against phishing attacks various anti-phishing strategies have been implemented having different strategies. This paper presents the various phishing attacks followed by a review of various anti-phishing techniques.

A Study on Phishing: Preventions and Anti-Phishing Solutions

Phishing is a form of online identity theft that aims to steal sensitive information such as online banking passwords and credit card information from users. Phishing scams have been receiving extensive press coverage because such attacks have been escalating in number and sophistication. According to a study by Gartner, 57 million US Internet users have identified the receipt of e-mail linked to phishing scams and about 2 million of them are estimated to have been tricked into giving away sensitive information. Phishing scams are now a part of everyday life. It’s important that you know how to spot one and avoid becoming a victim. Phishing scams are just another attempt to get valuable information. Scammers send a mass email to every address they can find. Typically the message will appear to come from a bank or financial institution. The email states that you should update your information for one reason or another, and they usually provide a link that we can click to do so. This all sounds reasonable and it may look legitimate, but phishing scams are anything but legitimate. The link provided does not take we to the financial institution’s website. Instead, we will be submitting our information to a website run by the scammers. This paper deals with the importance of phishing preventions and its solutions.

Detection and Prevention of Phishing Attack: An Approach for Eradication of Phishing

Phishing is like masquerading the trusted party to acquire the sensitive information from users. Phishing attacks are usually carried out through fake websites, fake URLs, fake attachments in emails, fake messages. The main aim of phishing attack is to fool the users by finding the weakness of the user. One of the best step to be taken to avoid this attack is that to educate the users about the fake links given in the website, where they should not visit such links and give the required credentials. Anyhow to make understand the user about the phishing attack becomes unrealistic, attackers find many ways to fool the users for browsing the fake website where they are given their personal credentials. Here in the proposed system there are two methods one is, the urls are considered from email, keyword search, website and compared with the database and the second method is to detect Phishing through image.

Study of Phishing Attacks and Preventions

International Journal of Computer Applications, 2017

The Internet is a great discovery for ordinary citizens correspondence. People with criminal personality have found a method for taking individual data without really meeting them and with minimal danger of being gotten. It is called Phishing. Phishing represents a huge threat to the web based business industry. Not just does it smash the certainty of clients towards online business, additionally causes electronic administration suppliers colossal financial misfortune. Subsequently, it is fundamental to think about phishing. This paper gives mindfulness about Phishing assaults and hostile to phishing apparatuses.

A Comparative Analysis of Phishing Detection and Prevention Techniques

International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing, 2016

Phishing assaults use websites and email messages similar to a familiar and genuine organization, so as to trick users into giving their financial or personal information online at the illegal websites. Phishing assaults look out at the various weak points that are present in systems and frameworks because of the human factor. There exist numerous cyber-attacks which are spread through different methods or schemes. They utilize these shortcomings found in end users, thus making the users as the most vulnerable component in terms of security. The phishing problem is extensive, expansive and till now there is no single answer to alleviate all the existing weak points effectively. This leads to implementation of multiple techniques to reduce specific attacks. This paper surveys the literature on the recently proposed anti-phishing techniques designed to detect and prevent phishing.

Study on Phishing Attacks

2021

The Internet has a remarkable platform for common people communication. People with criminal mind have found a way of stealing personal information without actually meeting them and with the least risk of being caught. It`s far known as Phishing. Phishing poses a big danger to the e-commerce enterprise. Now not most effective does it shatter the confidence of clients toward etrade, but also reasons electronic provider carriers superb eco nomic loss. Consequently it`s miles critical to realize approximately phishing. This paper gives awareness about phishing attacks and brief description about Shellphish. This tools used to capture user's credentials.

Types of anti-phishing solutions for phishing attack

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020

Nowadays, many people use Internet to do online activity. This scenario exposed them to danger in Internet which is phishing attack. In order to solve phishing attack, the anti-phishing solutions are needed. Based on our review, there are still lacks of articles that review on the types of anti-phishing solutions in detail. In this paper, a general idea of phishing attack and anti-phishing solutions is presented. The phishing attack can be classified into two categories which are social engineering and malware-based phishing attack. The anti-phishing solutions can be differentiating into two types which are phishing prevention and phishing detection. Compared to phishing prevention, the phishing detection is more important to solve the phishing attack. In phishing detection, there are two categories which are user awareness and software detection. The software detection has two methods which are traditional and automatic. There are two types for automatic method of software detectio...

A Survey of Online Detection and Prevention of Phishing Attacks

2013

Phishing is a kind of network attack which impacts financial loss and makes user a fool. Phishing attackers attract innocent website users by providing fake websites .In recent years phishing is a technique used for cyber crimes. In this paper we present an overview of different techniques used by the attackers and its prevention approaches.

Detection of phishing attacks using the anti-phishing framework

Scientific Bulletin of Naval Academy, 2020

In the area of computer security, phishing is a form of criminal activity that involves obtaining sensitive data, such as access data for banking applications, e-commerce applications (such as eBay or PayPal) or credit card information, using techniques to manipulate the identity data of a person or institution. A phishing attack consists of sending the attacker an electronic message, using instant messaging software or telephone, in which the user is advised to give his confidential data to win certain prizes, or is informed that they are prizes. necessary due to technical errors that led to the loss of the original data. According to the reports of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) published in December 2018, phishing against banking and the payment processor was high. Almost all phishy URLs use HTTPS and use redirects to avoid detection. This paper is a comparative survey of the available methods for detecting phishing sites. There has been a comparative study of anti-phishing tools and their limitations have been found. An anti-phishing model, a framework to help detect these attacks, is discussed. The identification of this type of attack is a very important problem considering that, at present, people carry out many online transactions regarding money transfer, payment of bills or purchases.