Email phishing attack mitigation using server side email addon

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Background/Objectives: Attackers using the anonymity provided in the Internet, by which they are representing themselves as legitimate users/companies and sending fake offers/messages to the users. Objective of this paper is to mitigate phishing attack in email messages by analyzing email contents. Methods/Statistical Analysis: In this paper, we discuss a new server side anti phishing email addon algorithm, by using the properties associated with the hyper-links, which present in emails. The methods we used here are comparison methods, which compare the similarity of the links to the anchor text of that links. Findings: With this algorithm we found a way to mitigate email phishing. Applications/Improvements: We improved accuracy of the finding phishing mails by checking the http links which are the mail tools to redirect user to the phishing site.

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Kumar, J. D., Srikanth, V., & Tejeswini, L. (2016). Email phishing attack mitigation using server side email addon. Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 9(19). https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i19/91161

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