Phishing attempts among the dark triad: Patterns of attack and vulnerability

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Highlights:

• We investigate the relationship between personality, phishing effort, and success.

• Three traits are: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy (dark triad).

• Attackers high in Machiavellianism were more likely to put more phishing effort.

• High end-user narcissism was related to greater susceptibility to phishing emails.

• End-user narcissists were susceptible to emails from narcissist attackers.

摘要

•We investigate the relationship between personality, phishing effort, and success.•Three traits are: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy (dark triad).•Attackers high in Machiavellianism were more likely to put more phishing effort.•High end-user narcissism was related to greater susceptibility to phishing emails.•End-user narcissists were susceptible to emails from narcissist attackers.

论文关键词:Phishing,Deception,Human behavior,Personality,Dark triad

论文评审过程:Received 29 March 2018, Revised 23 May 2018, Accepted 28 May 2018, Available online 31 May 2018, Version of Record 5 June 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.05.037