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Optimized Phishing Detection with Recurrent Neural Network and Whale Optimizer Algorithm

Brij Bhooshan Gupta^1,2,3,*, Akshat Gaurav⁴, Razaz Waheeb Attar⁵, Varsha Arya^6,7, Ahmed Alhomoud⁸, Kwok Tai Chui⁹

1 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, 413, Taiwan
2 Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT), Symbiosis International University, Pune, Maharashtra, 411057, India
3 Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, 248007, India
4 Ronin Institute, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA
5 Management Department, College of Business Administration, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh, 11671, Saudi Arabia
6 Department of Business Administration, Asia University, Taichung, 413, Taiwan
7 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lebanese American University, Beirut, 1102, Lebanon
8 Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Northern Border University, Rafha, 91911, Saudi Arabia
9 Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), Homantin, Hong Kong, China

* Corresponding Author: Brij Bhooshan Gupta. Email: