Review: Phishing Detection Approaches

Abstract

Phishing is one of the most common attacks on the internet that employs social engineering techniques like deceiving user with forged websites in an attempt to gain sensitive information such as credentials and credit card details. This information can be misused, resulting in large financial losses to these users. Phishing detection algorithms can be an effective approach to safeguarding users from such attacks. This paper will review different phishing detection approaches which include: Content-Based, Heuristic-Based, and Fuzzy rule-based approaches.