Is This Magikarp a Gyarados?: Using Machine Learning for Phishing Detection

Sometimes, the link you clink on is harmless like a Magikarp using splash. However, sometimes the link you click on might be a Gyarados using Hyperbeam to misuse PHP and steal your credit card credentials.

Phishing campaigns remain as one of the most timeless, and prevalent attacks against a corporation. However, phishing detection and prevention used today are still rooted in archaic methodologies of producing, obtaining, and maintaining blacklists. As an alternative, research into implementing a heuristic-based approach, rooted in fundamental machine learning algorithms, for phishing prevention is becoming more common. This talk will include a discussion on the heuristically approach of extracting features from a website and assessing if they are malicious or not, exploring how to effectively use various modeling for classification on the features of a website, and the stages to build out a repository for phishing research.

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