A Systematic Literature Review on Phishing and Anti-Phishing Techniques

  • Ayesha Arshad Department of Software Engineering, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan
  • Attique Ur Rehman Department of Software Engineering, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan
  • Sabeen Javaid Department of Software Engineering, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan
  • Tahir Muhammad Ali Department of Computer Science, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait
  • Javed Anjum Sheikh Department of Software Engineering, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan
  • Muhammad Azeem Department of Software Engineering, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan
Keywords: phishing techniques, anti-phishing techniques, SLR, Review

Abstract

Phishing is the number one threat in the world of internet. Phishing attacks are from decades and with each passing year it is becoming a major problem for internet users as attackers are coming with unique and creative ideas to breach the security. In this paper, different types of phishing and anti-phishing techniques are presented. For this purpose, the Systematic Literature Review(SLR) approach is followed to critically define the proposed research questions. At first 80 articles were extracted from different repositories. These articles were then filtered out using Tollgate Approach to find out different types of phishing and anti-phishing techniques. Research study evaluated that spear phishing, Email Spoofing, Email Manipulation and phone phishing are the most commonly used phishing techniques. On the other hand, according to the SLR, machine learning approaches have the highest accuracy of preventing and detecting phishing attacks among all other anti-phishing approaches.

Published
2021-03-22
How to Cite
[1]
A. Arshad, A. Ur Rehman, S. Javaid, T. Muhammad Ali, J. Anjum Sheikh, and M. Azeem, “A Systematic Literature Review on Phishing and Anti-Phishing Techniques”, PakJET, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 163-168, Mar. 2021.