A Deep-Learning-Driven Light-Weight Phishing Detection Sensor

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 19; no. 19; p. 4258
• Main Authors: Wei, Bo, Hamad, Rebeen Ali, Yang, Longzhi, He, Xuan, Wang, Hao, Gao, Bin, Woo, Wai Lok
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 30.09.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Algorithms; Blacklisting; cyber security; Cybersecurity; Deep learning; Feature selection; Machine learning; Malware; Methods; Neural networks; phishing detection; Sensors; URLs; Websites

This paper designs an accurate and low-cost phishing detection sensor by exploring deep learning techniques. Phishing is a very common social engineering technique. The attackers try to deceive online users by mimicking a uniform resource locator (URL) and a webpage. Traditionally, phishing detectio...