Definition
Phishing is a social engineering attack which aims to manipulate people and encourage them to expose their confidential information. There are many different types of phishing attacks such as spear phishing, whaling, vishing, and smishing.
Introduction
Cybercrime is becoming a widespread problem that is posing an increased risk due to the increasing number of devices such as smartphones that are connected to the Internet. There is an increase in the usage of smartphones for a variety of applications, such as browsing the Internet, gaming, social networking, online banking, and attending to emails. The past three years have seen an increase in smartphone usage for email applications by 180% (Heinze et al. 2016). Furthermore, banking users will use their mobile devices to manage their current accounts over 2.3 billion times – more than the cumulative total...
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Al-Hamar, Y., Kolivand, H., Al-Hamar, A. (2021). Anti-Phishing Attacks in Gamification. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_383-1
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