A Literature Survey of Phishing Attack Technique

Abstract: It is a crime to practice phishing by employing technical tricks and social engineering to exploit the innocence of unaware users. This methodology usually covers up a trustworthy entity so as to influence a consumer to execute an action if asked by the imitated entity. Most of the times, phishing attacks are being noticed by the practiced users but security is a main motive for the basic users as they are not aware of such circumstances. However, some methodologies are limited to look after the phishing attacks only and the delay in detection is mandatory. In this paper we emphasize the various techniques used for the detection of phishing attacks. We have also discovered various techniques for detection and prevention of phishing. Apart from that, we have introduced a new model for detection and prevention of phishing attacks.

Keywords: Detection, Phishing email, Filtering, Classifiers, Machine learning, Authentication.