Integrating AI and Semantic Web Technologies for Robust Phishing Detection in Virtual Realities
Phishing detection is a critical challenge in virtual realities, where malicious activities can compromise user security. This paper presents a novel approach integrating AI and Semantic Web Technologies for robust phishing detection. The proposed model preprocesses text data and leverages a reduced six-layer BERT encoder to extract contextual embeddings. Outputs from BERT, including classifier, attention, and encoder layers, are combined with features derived from Semantic Web Technologies and a custom deep learning layer to form a unified representation. The concatenated features are passed to a linear layer for classification. Experiments demonstrate superior performance, achieving 95\% accuracy, 96\% F1-score, and a 0.99 ROC-AUC, outperforming standard machine learning models. This framework provides a reliable phishing detection solution for virtual environments.
Authors
- Akshat Gaurav (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5796-9424)
- Wadee Alhalabi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4505-7268)
- Eaman Alharbi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3248)
- Varsha Arya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7549-4429)
- Liang Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5957-2674)
Institutions
- King Abdulaziz University (SA)
- Jiading District Central Hospital (CN)
- Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences (CN)
- Ronin Institute (US)
- University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
- Published
- 2025-03-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4018/ijswis.371415
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Spam and Phishing Detection
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 22.72