TY  - EJOU
AU  - Adu-Manu, Kofi Sarpong 
AU  - Ahiable, Richard Kwasi 
AU  - Appati, Justice Kwame 
AU  - Mensah, Ebenezer Essel 

TI  - Phishing Attacks in Social Engineering: A Review
T2  - Journal of Cyber Security

PY  - 2022
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
SN  - 2579-0064

AB  - Organisations closed their offices and began working from home
online to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. This shift in work culture
coincided with increased online use during the same period. As a result,
the rate of cybercrime has skyrocketed. This study examines the approaches,
techniques, and countermeasures of Social Engineering and phishing in this
context. The study discusses recent trends in the existing approaches for
identifying phishing assaults. We explore social engineering attacks, categorise
them into types, and offer both technical and social solutions for countering phishing attacks which makes this paper different from similar works
that mainly focused on the types of attacks. We also show essential human
characteristics that make users vulnerable to phishing attacks, their mitigating
strategies, challenges, and future directions.
KW  - Social engineering; cybersecurity; cyber attack; cyber fraud; phishing

DO  - 10.32604/jcs.2023.041095