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From Hooks to Clicks : = A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Language Trends in Phishing Schemes Across Different Attack Vectors.

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Title/Author:	From Hooks to Clicks :/
Reminder of title:	A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Language Trends in Phishing Schemes Across Different Attack Vectors.
Author:	Hawamdah, Luma M.
Description:	1 online resource (166 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-06A.
Subject:	Engineering. -
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ISBN:	9798381144932

From Hooks to Clicks : = A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Language Trends in Phishing Schemes Across Different Attack Vectors.
Hawamdah, Luma M.

From Hooks to Clicks :A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Language Trends in Phishing Schemes Across Different Attack Vectors. - 1 online resource (166 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.

Thesis (D.Engr.)--The George Washington University, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

Phishing attacks utilize cybersecurity's significant vulnerabilities, human beings, by leveraging the skills of human deceptiveness and technology to turn their targets into victims. These attacks have become the number one preferred method for adversaries to execute their attacks by successfully understanding the victim's behavior and emotions to gain their trust. They pose a high threat to organizations in both the business and personal aspects of it. Even though organizations invest in security systems, and updates to their infrastructure they have yet to find a complete defense mechanism against these attacks where individuals follow secure protocols, security awareness training for organizations, and rules and regulations enacted to defend against phishing attacks.With the above understanding in mind, a novel topic to investigate a different form of analysis was drawn out in the open. This research aims to address the critical challenge of identifying phishing attempts within various forms of digital communication, such as emails, text messages, malicious URLs, and job postings. The goal is to leverage Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, specifically Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), to create a robust model capable of flagging potential phishing content from a diverse range of datasets. The base model introduced is the "PhishNet". It was further decided to compare the same framework on BART and XLNET models to verify that the BERT approach with the concatenated dataset provides valid credibility to the approach.The model was implemented by assessing a basic predictive model for detecting phishing URLS and building on it by utilizing multi-diverse datasets that were concatenated to address the gaps identified in the predictive models in today's market. The data was facilitated by different phishing attacks building upon it and combining the data into one form of entry to provide us with a larger scale of understanding of the language used to perform a phishing attack.The phishing dataset shows that there are six main categories of language that are used to grab the attention of the victims - these include obtaining a reward, a form of urgency, curiosity, job requirement, for entertainment purposes and from fear. PhishNet has proven to provide higher accuracy than the current standalone URL blocklist model with an accuracy result of over 99% as it identifies these different psychological traits an attacker might have to perform the attack. With this understanding, we are also able to create a framework for training employees and investigating the feasibility of building the model through a browser extension. The research's significance lies in offering innovative and effective approaches to prevent and mitigate phishing assaults and strengthening information system security.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798381144932Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Engineering.
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