Social phishing

Social network sites: definition, history, and scholarship

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Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook

Acquisti, A., & Gross, R. (2006) · Lecture Notes in Computer Science · doi:10.1007/11957454_3 · Cited by 1,895 · see citing works

The spread of low-credibility content by social bots

Shao, C., Ciampaglia, G. L., Varol, O., Yang, K.-C., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2018) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06930-7 · Cited by 1,125 · see citing works

Detecting spammers on social networks

Stringhini, G., Kruegel, C., & Vigna, G. (2010) · Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference · doi:10.1145/1920261.1920263 · Cited by 791 · see citing works

Uncovering social spammers: social honeypots + machine learning

Lee, K., Caverlee, J., & Webb, S. (2010) · Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval · doi:10.1145/1835449.1835522 · Cited by 619 · see citing works

Advanced social engineering attacks

Krombholz, K., Hobel, H., Huber, M., & Weippl, E. (2015) · Journal of Information Security and Applications · doi:10.1016/j.jisa.2014.09.005 · Cited by 575 · see citing works

Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

Yang, K., Varol, O., Davis, C. A., Ferrara, E., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2019) · Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies · doi:10.1002/hbe2.115 · Cited by 419 · see citing works

Uncovering Large Groups of Active Malicious Accounts in Online Social Networks

Cao, Q., Yang, X., Yu, J., & Palow, C. (2014) · Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security · doi:10.1145/2660267.2660269 · Cited by 274 · see citing works

A Taxonomy of Attacks and a Survey of Defence Mechanisms for Semantic Social Engineering Attacks

Heartfield, R., & Loukas, G. (2016) · ACM Computing Surveys · doi:10.1145/2835375 · Cited by 202 · see citing works

Social engineering attack examples, templates and scenarios

Mouton, F., Leenen, L., & Venter, H. S. (2016) · Computers & Security · doi:10.1016/j.cose.2016.03.004 · Cited by 194 · see citing works

A survey of phishing attack techniques, defence mechanisms and open research challenges

Jain, A. K., & Gupta, B. B. (2022) · Enterprise Information Systems · doi:10.1080/17517575.2021.1896786 · Cited by 192 · see citing works

Follow the green

Stringhini, G., Wang, G., Egele, M., Kruegel, C., Vigna, G., Zheng, H., & Zhao, B. Y. (2013) · Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference · doi:10.1145/2504730.2504731 · Cited by 169 · see citing works

The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence

Bonnefon, J.-F., Rahwan, I., & Shariff, A. (2024) · Annual Review of Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-030123-113559 · Cited by 151 · see citing works

Privacy Awareness: A Means to Solve the Privacy Paradox?

Pötzsch, S. (2009) · IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03315-5_17 · Cited by 107 · see citing works

Human Cognition Through the Lens of Social Engineering Cyberattacks

Montañez, R., Golob, E., & Xu, S. (2020) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01755 · Cited by 106 · see citing works

Detection of malicious social bots: A survey and a refined taxonomy

Latah, M. (2020) · Expert Systems with Applications · doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113383 · Cited by 94 · see citing works

Predicting Phishing Websites Using Classification Mining Techniques with Experimental Case Studies

Aburrous, M., Hossain, M. A., Dahal, K., & Thabtah, F. (2010) · 2010 Seventh International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations · doi:10.1109/itng.2010.117 · Cited by 86 · see citing works

The decision to access patient information from a social media site: what would you do?

Jent, J. F., Eaton, C. K., Merrick, M. T., Englebert, N. E., Dandes, S. K., Chapman, A. V., & Hershorin, E. R. (2011) · Journal of Adolescent Health · doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.02.004 · Cited by 79 · see citing works

What Happens After You Are Pwnd: Understanding the Use of Leaked Webmail Credentials in the Wild

Onaolapo, J., Mariconti, E., & Stringhini, G. (2016) · Proceedings of the 2016 Internet Measurement Conference · doi:10.1145/2987443.2987475 · Cited by 74 · see citing works

Automated Decision-Making and Big Data: Concerns for People With Mental Illness

Monteith, S., & Glenn, T. (2016) · Current Psychiatry Reports · doi:10.1007/s11920-016-0746-6 · Cited by 62 · see citing works

Trust calibration of automated security IT artifacts: A multi-domain study of phishing-website detection tools

Chen, Y., Zahedi, F. M., Abbasi, A., & Dobolyi, D. (2021) · Information & Management · doi:10.1016/j.im.2020.103394 · Cited by 53 · see citing works

Personality, emotion and individual differences in response to online fraud

Norris, G., & Brookes, A. (2021) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.109847 · Cited by 50 · see citing works

Digital poly-victimization: The increasing importance of online crime and harassment to the burden of victimization

Hamby, S., Blount, Z., Smith, A., Jones, L., Mitchell, K., & Taylor, E. (2018) · Journal of Trauma & Dissociation · doi:10.1080/15299732.2018.1441357 · Cited by 46 · see citing works

Social Engineering and Insider Threats

Xiangyu, L., Qiuyang, L., & Chandel, S. (2017) · 2017 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC) · doi:10.1109/cyberc.2017.91 · Cited by 43 · see citing works

Social engineering in social networking sites: Affect-based model

Algarni, A., Xu, Y., Chan, T., & Tian, Y.-C. (2013) · 8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2013) · doi:10.1109/icitst.2013.6750253 · Cited by 41 · see citing works

GenAI Against Humanity: Nefarious Applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models

Ferrara, E. (2023) · doi:10.2139/ssrn.4614223 · Cited by 266 · see citing works

The anatomy of written scam communications: An empirical analysis

Carter, E. (2015) · Crime Media Culture An International Journal · doi:10.1177/1741659015572310 · Cited by 26 · see citing works

Vulnerability to social engineering in social networks: a proposed user-centric framework

Albladi, S., & Weir, G. R. S. (2016) · 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensic (ICCCF) · doi:10.1109/icccf.2016.7740435 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

Measuring Source Credibility of Social Engineering Attackers on Facebook

Algarni, A., Xu, Y., & Chan, T. (2016) · 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) · doi:10.1109/hicss.2016.460 · Cited by 18 · see citing works

Open Challenges in Multi-Agent Security: Towards Secure Systems of Interacting AI Agents

de Witt, C. S., Krawiecka, K., Krawczuk, I., Hagag, B., Anderson, W. L., Belcak, P., Bucknall, B., Cai, X., Chopra, A., Cohen, D., et al. (2025) · arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.02077 · Cited by 2 · see citing works