Kofi Sarpong Adu-Manu*, Richard Kwasi Ahiable
Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.5, pp. 13-32, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2023.043359
- 19 October 2023
Abstract As businesses develop and expand with a significant volume of data, data protection and privacy become increasingly important. Research has shown a tremendous increase in phishing activities during and after COVID-19. This research aimed to improve the existing approaches to detecting phishing activities on the internet. We designed a multi-layered phish detection algorithm to detect and prevent phishing applications on the internet using URLs. In the algorithm, we considered technical dimensions of phishing attack prevention and mitigation on the internet. In our approach, we merge, Phishtank, Blacklist, Blocklist, and Whitelist to form our framework. A More >