A survey of phishing attacks: Their types, vectors and technical approaches

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Highlights:

• A systematic, comprehensive and easy-to-follow review of phishing approaches.

• Identification of relevant mediums and vectors for each of these approaches.

• Detailed discussion on these approaches are given.

• Combination of these approaches in a phishing attack is discussed.

• This review enables the researchers to tackle the technical approaches at the root.

摘要

•A systematic, comprehensive and easy-to-follow review of phishing approaches.•Identification of relevant mediums and vectors for each of these approaches.•Detailed discussion on these approaches are given.•Combination of these approaches in a phishing attack is discussed.•This review enables the researchers to tackle the technical approaches at the root.

论文关键词:Information security threats,Advanced phishing techniques,Anti-phishing,Attack vector,Taxonomy,Review

论文评审过程:Received 29 June 2017, Revised 14 February 2018, Accepted 23 March 2018, Available online 27 March 2018, Version of Record 10 April 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.03.050