Phishing Mitigation Techniques: A Literature Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews various phishing mitigation techniques, analyzing their effectiveness and limitations, and discusses potential improvements to enhance email security against phishing attacks.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive literature analysis of existing phishing detection methods and highlights their limitations, proposing directions for future research.

Findings

Existing solutions have limitations in accurately detecting phishing emails.

Many techniques struggle with high false positive rates.

There is a need for more robust and adaptive phishing detection methods.

Abstract

Email is a channel of communication which is considered to be a confidential medium of communication for exchange of information among individuals and organisations. The confidentiality consideration about e-mail is no longer the case as attackers send malicious emails to users to deceive them into disclosing their private personal information such as username, password, and bank card details, etc. In search of a solution to combat phishing cybercrime attacks, different approaches have been developed. However, the traditional exiting solutions have been limited in assisting email users to identify phishing emails from legitimate ones. This paper reveals the different email and website phishing solutions in phishing attack detection. It first provides a literature analysis of different existing phishing mitigation approaches. It then provides a discussion on the limitations of the techniques, before concluding with an exploration into how phishing detection can be improved.