A Concise Survey on Modern Web-Based Phishing Techniques and Advanced Mitigation Strategies

Abstract

Phishing is a tactical technique practiced by cyber-criminals, wherein the target systems are approached, made vulnerable, and exploited. A Phisher who does the act of phishing is always creative, calculative, and persistent. This potentially leads to the increase in the success rate of phishing and the individuals who are technically expertise even falls in phishing campaigns. This article discusses about the various web-based phishing techniques used by the modern day cyber criminals. Various mitigation techniques related to the state of the art machine learning and deep learning techniques are also studied. The article also extensively discusses about the features utilized for the detection. Additionally, a qualitative and quantitative comparison of different studies for mitigating the web phishing attacks is also examined.