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- Volume 2, Issue 1 2024
By Tariq Saeed, Muhammad Nafees
10.20547/aibd.242104
Keywords: Phishing attacks, counter measures, cyber security.
During the past few years, cybersecurity has gained a lot of prominence. In this paper, phishing attacks are discussed in detail. In a phishing attack, an attacker disguises itself as a genuine user and deceives the end-user to gains its personal information such as credit card, usernames/ passwords etc. There are a number of ways to perform phishing attacks such as via email, spear phishing, clone phishing, whaling etc. This paper talks about phishing attacks in detail along with its techniques, counter-measures and recent trends directions for research. Phishing is a significant threat to every individual, organization, and in general the global landscape. The paper starts with a comprehensive study on phishing attacks and countermeasures. It provides an overview of the techniques employed by attackers for compromising security. It also presents the evolving trends in phishing attacks. Finally, the paper delves on the current countermeasures proposed in literature to mitigate such threats.