Phishing Detection and Prevention: A New Approach

Abstract

Phishing is that the act of making an attempt to accumulate data admire usernames, passwords, and master card details (and generally, indirectly, money) by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in associate degree transmission. Communications purporting to be from widespread social websites, auction sites, banks, on-line payment processors or IT directors square measure unremarkably would not to lure unsuspecting public. Phishing emails might contain links to websites that square measure infected with malware. Phishing is usually allotted by email spoofing or instant electronic communication, and it usually directs users to enter details at a pretend web site whose look and feel square measure virtually similar to the legitimate one. During this paper, we tend to propose a replacement end-host based mostly anti-phishing algorithmic program that we tend to decision LinkGuard, by utilizing the generic characteristics of the hyperlinks in phishing attacks. These characteristics square measure derived by analyzing the phishing information archive provided by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Because it is supported the generic characteristics of phishing attacks, LinkGuard will find not solely familiar, however, additionally unknown phishing attacks. We have got enforced LinkGuard in Windows XP. Our experiments verified that LinkGuard is effective to find and forestall each familiar and unknown phishing attacks with borderline false negatives.