Phishing Detection

Abstract

The phishing email is one of the significant threats in the world today and has caused tremendous financial losses. Phishing is a type of social engineering attack often used to steal user data, including login credentials and credit card numbers. It occurs when an attacker, masquerading as a trusted entity, dupes a victim into opening an email, instant message, or text message. Although the methods of confrontation are continually being updated, the results of those methods are not very satisfactory at present. Moreover, phishing emails are growing at an alarming rate in recent years. Therefore, more effective phishing detection technology is needed to curb the threat of phishing emails. So There are many ways to detect these phishing mails nowadays using Machine Learning. so using the phishing mail detector where these links could be tested and then predicted and to detect whether it is a spam or not. Keywords: Phishing mail, Social engineering, Machine learning