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Phishing Websites, Detection and Analysis: A Survey

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Contemporary Issues in Communication, Cloud and Big Data Analytics

Abstract

Phishing is the despicable utilization of electronic interchanges to trick clients. Phishing assaults resolve to increase delicate data like usernames, passwords, MasterCard information, network qualifications, and the sky is the limit from there. Phishing assaults endeavor to increase touchy, secret data, for example, usernames, passwords, charge card data, network qualifications, and then some. Phishing Websites copy the first sites so clients believe that they are utilizing the first sites. On account of phishing assaults, each individuals and associations are at threat. Phishing assaults might be forestalled by identifying the sites and serving to clients to detect the phishing sites. To distinguish the phishing sites, there have been various strategies applied. Diverse machine learning methods, information mining procedures, neural organization and different calculations have been utilized for anticipating or ordering or distinguishing the phishing sites. This paper aims at surveying on recently proposed phishing detection techniques.

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Sakri, L.I., Nikkam, P.S., Kulkarni, M., Kamath, P., Bhat, S.S., Kamat, S. (2022). Phishing Websites, Detection and Analysis: A Survey. In: Sarma, H.K.D., Balas, V.E., Bhuyan, B., Dutta, N. (eds) Contemporary Issues in Communication, Cloud and Big Data Analytics. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 281. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4244-9_2

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