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SecureNet: A Comparative Study of DeBERTa and Large Language Models for Phishing Detection
Sakshi Mahendru, Tejul Pandit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06663 h…

SecureNet: A Comparative Study of DeBERTa and Large Language Models for Phishing Detection
Phishing, whether through email, SMS, or malicious websites, poses a major threat to organizations by using social engineering to trick users into revealing sensitive information. It not only compromises company's data security but also incurs significant financial losses. In this paper, we investigate whether the remarkable performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) can be leveraged for particular task like text classification, particularly detecting malicious content and compare its results …

Threat actors impersonate GitHub's security and recruitment teams in phishing attacks to hijack repositories using malicious OAuth apps in an ongoing extortion campaign wiping compromised repos.
Since at least February, dozens of developers targeted in this campaign have received similar fake job offers or security alert emails from "notifications@github.com" after being tagged in spam comments added to random repo issues or pull requests using compromised GitHub accounts…

Oh, nein! Eine Warnung der Feinrippträger.
Was soll ich tun?🤣

The post is from a new employee at a large company who oversees phishing training. The employee is seeking advice about how frequently others accept LinkedIn pitch call invitations solely for the Amazon gift cards that are offered. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1dhznzd/

A Passwordless MFA Utlizing Biometrics, Proximity and Contactless Communication
Sneha Shukla, Gaurav Varshney, Shreya Singh, Swati Goel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09000

A Passwordless MFA Utlizing Biometrics, Proximity and Contactless Communication
Despite being more secure and strongly promoted, two-factor (2FA) or multi-factor (MFA) schemes either fail to protect against recent phishing threats such as real-time MITM, controls/relay MITM, malicious browser extension-based phishing attacks, and/or need the users to purchase and carry other hardware for additional account protection. Leveraging the unprecedented popularity of NFC and BLE-enabled smartphones, we explore a new horizon for designing an MFA scheme. This paper introduces an ad…