Human and Cognitive Factors involved in Phishing Detection. A Literature Review

Diana Arévalo; Daría Valarezo; Walter Fuertes; María Fernanda Cazares; Roberto O. Andrade; Mayra MacAs

doi:10.1109/CSCE60160.2023.00105

Human and Cognitive Factors involved in Phishing Detection. A Literature Review

Diana Arévalo
, Daría Valarezo
, Walter Fuertes
, María Fernanda Cazares
, Roberto O. Andrade
, Mayra MacAs

Research Group on Spatial Data Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence Geoportals and Applied Computing (IDE IA GEO CA)

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Abstract

Human and cognitive factors considerably influence social engineering attacks. Cybercriminals take advantage of the innocence, carelessness, stress, lack of knowledge, and other aspects that make human beings vulnerable. Also, there exists difficulty for users to identify an email with phishing. However, the causes and solutions are not only technological; they also depend on human perception. Within this context, in this paper, we perform a systematic literature review using the PRISMA guidelines of the recent studies applying security and cognitive psychology, aiming to identify the human and cognitive factors that are part of a Phishing attack. The main findings of this research are focused on developing future research in cybersecurity, which we believe should go in hand with human cognitive and psychological factors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	608-614
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350327595
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCE60160.2023.00105
State	Published - 2023
Event	2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023 - Las Vegas, United States Duration: 24 Jul 2023 → 27 Jul 2023

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Name	Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023

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Conference	2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	24/07/23 → 27/07/23

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© 2023 IEEE.

Keywords

cognitive psychology
Cognitive security
human factors
phishing
risk perception

CACES Knowledge Areas

116A Computer Science

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Arévalo, D., Valarezo, D., Fuertes, W., Fernanda Cazares, M., Andrade, R. O., & MacAs, M. (2023). Human and Cognitive Factors involved in Phishing Detection. A Literature Review. In Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023 (pp. 608-614). (Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCE60160.2023.00105

Arévalo, Diana ; Valarezo, Daría ; Fuertes, Walter et al. / Human and Cognitive Factors involved in Phishing Detection. A Literature Review. Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. pp. 608-614 (Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023).

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Arévalo, D, Valarezo, D, Fuertes, W, Fernanda Cazares, M, Andrade, RO & MacAs, M 2023, Human and Cognitive Factors involved in Phishing Detection. A Literature Review. in Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023. Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 608-614, 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023, Las Vegas, United States, 24/07/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCE60160.2023.00105

Human and Cognitive Factors involved in Phishing Detection. A Literature Review. / Arévalo, Diana; Valarezo, Daría; Fuertes, Walter et al.
Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. p. 608-614 (Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023).

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Arévalo D, Valarezo D, Fuertes W, Fernanda Cazares M, Andrade RO, MacAs M. Human and Cognitive Factors involved in Phishing Detection. A Literature Review. In Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2023. p. 608-614. (Proceedings - 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, CSCE 2023). doi: 10.1109/CSCE60160.2023.00105

Human and Cognitive Factors involved in Phishing Detection. A Literature Review

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