Shoaib Khan, Bilal Khan, Saifullah Jan^*, Subhan Ullah, Aiman

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.5, pp. 47-66, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2023.045579

Abstract Phishing attacks pose a significant security threat by masquerading as trustworthy entities to steal sensitive information, a problem that persists despite user awareness. This study addresses the pressing issue of phishing attacks on websites and assesses the performance of three prominent Machine Learning (ML) models—Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)—utilizing authentic datasets sourced from Kaggle and Mendeley repositories. Extensive experimentation and analysis reveal that the CNN model achieves a better accuracy of 98%. On the other hand, LSTM shows the lowest accuracy of 96%. These findings underscore the potential of ML techniques in… More >

Zeyad Ghaleb Al-Mekhlafi¹, Badiea Abdulkarem Mohammed^1,2,*, Mohammed Al-Sarem³, Faisal Saeed³, Tawfik Al-Hadhrami⁴, Mohammad T. Alshammari¹, Abdulrahman Alreshidi¹, Talal Sarheed Alshammari¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.41, No.1, pp. 109-125, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.020414

Abstract Phishing attacks are security attacks that do not affect only individuals’ or organizations’ websites but may affect Internet of Things (IoT) devices and networks. IoT environment is an exposed environment for such attacks. Attackers may use thingbots software for the dispersal of hidden junk emails that are not noticed by users. Machine and deep learning and other methods were used to design detection methods for these attacks. However, there is still a need to enhance detection accuracy. Optimization of an ensemble classification method for phishing website (PW) detection is proposed in this study. A Genetic Algorithm (GA) was used for… More >