Phishing Attacks Detection and Prevention Techniques: An Overview

The rapid rise in global internet usage has resulted in many online services in numerous fields, such as e-commerce, buying and selling goods or services, social networking, and e-government. As a result, there has been a significant rise in sensitive information like personal data exchanged online. The convenient access to this data has caught the attention of cybercriminals, who have invented a type of cyberattack called phishing. The most crucial difficulty in identifying phishing websites is that attackers always develop sophisticated strategies. Creating phishing websites has become progressively easier, enabling attackers to bypass many protections measures easily. To gain a deeper understanding of this phishing strategy and the techniques used by cybersecurity guys to overcome it, a survey will be conducted about the types of phishing attacks and how it is carried out against online users, besides that we will explore the protection techniques and identify their powers and weaknesses. Finally, some solutions will be proposed to maintain the availability, robustness, and integrity of phishing attacks proposed solutions models.