SBPA: Social behavior based cross Social Network phishing attacks

Yifan Tian, Jiawei Yuan, Shucheng Yu

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Abstract

Phishing attacks represent wide spread threats to Online Social Networks (OSNs). Existing research has investigated effective phishing attacks by utilizing users' public information on their OSN accounts. In this work, we demonstrate a more powerful phishing attack by extracting users' social behaviors along with other basic user information among different OSNs. Experimental evaluation shows this new phishing attack improves the success rate compared to existing phishing attacks. We also provide possible directions for mitigating the discovered attack.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, CNS 2016
Pages366-367
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781509030651
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Feb 2017
Event2016 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, CNS 2016 - Philadelphia, United States
Duration: 17 Oct 201619 Oct 2016

Publication series

Name2016 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, CNS 2016

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, CNS 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia
Period17/10/1619/10/16

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