...Lorin Schöni; Neele Roch; Victor Carles; Hannah Sievers; Martin Strohmeier; Peter Mayer; Verena Zimmermann Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of personalised phishing training on users’ phishing detection skills, by adapting training content to users’ phishing proficiency...

...Keith S. Jones; Eleanor K. Foster; Miriam E. Armstrong; Akbar Siami Namin Purpose How users respond to phishing attacks is influenced by their perceptions of how susceptible they are to attacks (perceived susceptibility) and how severe are the attack’s consequences (perceived severity...

...Pavlo Burda; Luca Allodi; Alexander Serebrenik; Nicola Zannone Purpose This study aims to investigate the factors influencing employees’ decisions to report suspicious phishing e-mails in organizations, addressing the gap in understanding what motivates users to report and which types of e-mails...

...Kalam Khadka; Abu Barkat Ullah; Elisa Martinez Marroquin Purpose This study aims to identify and analyse the persuasive principles employed in phishing emails through a detailed content analysis of both email subject lines and entire email contents. It investigates how these persuasion principles...

...Morné Owen; Stephen V. Flowerday; Karl van der Schyff Purpose Researchers looking for ways to change the insecure behaviour that results in phishing have considered multiple possible reasons for such behaviour. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to understand the role of optimism bias (OB...

...Rufai Ahmad; Sotirios Terzis; Karen Renaud Purpose This study aims to investigate how phishers apply persuasion principles and construct deceptive URLs in mobile instant messaging (MIM) phishing. Design/methodology/approach In total, 67 examples of real-world MIM phishing attacks were...

...Tianhao Xu; Prashanth Rajivan Purpose Distinguishing phishing emails from legitimate emails continues to be a difficult task for most individuals. This study aims to investigate the psycholinguistic factors associated with deception in phishing email text and their effect on end-user ability...

...Sanchari Das; Christena Nippert-Eng; L. Jean Camp Purpose Phishing is a well-known cybersecurity attack that has rapidly increased in recent years. It poses risks to businesses, government agencies and all users due to sensitive data breaches and subsequent financial losses. To study the user side...

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...Piers Bayl-Smith; Ronnie Taib; Kun Yu; Mark Wiggins Purpose This study aims to examine the effect of cybersecurity threat and efficacy upon click-through, response to a phishing attack: persuasion and protection motivation in an organizational context. Design/methodology/approach...

...Suganthi Manoharan; Norliza Katuk; Syahida Hassan; Rahayu Ahmad Purpose Despite internet banking’s popularity, there is a rise in phishing attacks related to online banking transactions. Phishing attacks involved the process of sending out electronic mails impersonating the valid banking...

... anti-phishing training is a more effective way to enhance the ability of users to identify phishing URLs than the use of passive anti-phishing tutorials (Arachchilage et al., 2016 ; Davinson and Sillence, 2010 ; Kumaraguru et al., 2010 ; Mayhorn and Nyeste, 2012 ; Sheng et al...

...Rika Butler; Martin Butler Purpose Phishing attacks exploit social vulnerabilities and remain a global concern. Financial institutions often use their websites as part of their online awareness and education efforts. This paper aims to explore the effectiveness of phishing-related information made...

...Gunikhan Sonowal; KS Kuppusamy Purpose This paper aims to propose a model entitled MMSPhiD (multidimensional similarity metrics model for screen reader user to phishing detection) that amalgamates multiple approaches to detect phishing URLs. Design/methodology/approach The model consists...

...Alain Tambe Ebot Purpose This paper aims to review the behavioral phishing literature to understand why anti-phishing recommendations are not very effective and to propose ways of making the recommendations more effective. The paper also examines how the concept of stages from health communication...

...Jurjen Jansen; Paul van Schaik Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the protection motivation theory (PMT) in the context of fear appeal interventions to reduce the threat of phishing attacks. In addition, it was tested to what extent the model relations are equivalent across fear appeal...

...Swapan Purkait Purpose – This paper aims to report on research that tests the effectiveness of anti-phishing tools in detecting phishing attacks by conducting some real-time experiments using freshly hosted phishing sites. Almost all modern-day Web browsers and antivirus programs provide security...

...Waldo Rocha Flores; Hannes Holm; Marcus Nohlberg; Mathias Ekstedt Purpose – The purpose of the study was twofold: to investigate the correlation between a sample of personal psychological and demographic factors and resistance to phishing; and to investigate if national culture moderates...

... literature. Data were collected through a scenario-based survey, phishing experiments, journals and follow-up interviews in three organisations. Findings – The results from the experiment revealed that the degree of target information in an attack increased the likelihood that an organisational...

...Swapan Purkait; Sadhan Kumar De; Damodar Suar Purpose – The aim of this study is to report on the results of an empirical investigation of the various factors which have significant impacts on the Internet user’s ability to correctly identify a phishing website. Design/methodology/approach...