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most citedAutomated email Generation for Targeted Attacks using Natural Language

14 citations · 29 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2021

Claim Verification using a Multi-GAN based Model

Amartya Hatua, Arjun Mukherjee, Rakesh M. Verma

This article describes research on claim verification carried out using a multiple GAN-based model. The proposed model consists of three pairs of generators and discriminators. The…

cs.CL2020

Modeling Coherency in Generated Emails by Leveraging Deep Neural Learners

Avisha Das, Rakesh M. Verma

Advanced machine learning and natural language techniques enable attackers to launch sophisticated and targeted social engineering-based attacks. To counter the active attacker iss…

cs.CR2020★ 2 cited

Less is More: Exploiting Social Trust to Increase the Effectiveness of a Deception Attack

Shahryar Baki, Rakesh M. Verma, Arjun Mukherjee +1

Cyber attacks such as phishing, IRS scams, etc., still are successful in fooling Internet users. Users are the last line of defense against these attacks since attackers seem to al…

cs.CR2019★ 2 cited

SOK: A Comprehensive Reexamination of Phishing Research from the Security Perspective

Avisha Das, Shahryar Baki, Ayman El Aassal +2

Phishing and spear-phishing are typical examples of masquerade attacks since trust is built up through impersonation for the attack to succeed. Given the prevalence of these attack…

cs.IR2019

Online News Media Website Ranking Using User Generated Content

Samaneh Karimi, Azadeh Shakery, Rakesh Verma

News media websites are important online resources that have drawn great attention of text mining researchers. The main aim of this study is to propose a framework for ranking onli…

cs.CL2019★ 14 cited

Automated email Generation for Targeted Attacks using Natural Language

Avisha Das, Rakesh Verma

With an increasing number of malicious attacks, the number of people and organizations falling prey to social engineering attacks is proliferating. Despite considerable research in…

cs.CR2019

The CATS Hackathon: Creating and Refining Test Items for Cybersecurity Concept Inventories

Alan T. Sherman, Linda Oliva, Enis Golaszewski +12

For two days in February 2018, 17 cybersecurity educators and professionals from government and industry met in a "hackathon" to refine existing draft multiple-choice test items, a…

cs.CL2017★ 6 cited

Identifying Reference Spans: Topic Modeling and Word Embeddings help IR

Luis Moraes, Shahryar Baki, Rakesh Verma +1

The CL-SciSumm 2016 shared task introduced an interesting problem: given a document D and a piece of text that cites D, how do we identify the text spans of D being referenced by t…

cs.CL2017

Extractive Summarization: Limits, Compression, Generalized Model and Heuristics

Rakesh Verma, Daniel Lee

Due to its promise to alleviate information overload, text summarization has attracted the attention of many researchers. However, it has remained a serious challenge. Here, we fir…

cs.CY2017★ 5 cited

The INSuRE Project: CAE-Rs Collaborate to Engage Students in Cybersecurity Research

Alan Sherman, M. Dark, A. Chan +8

Since fall 2012, several National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (CAE-Rs) fielded a collaborative course to engage students in solving applied cybersecuri…

cs.LO2016

Uniqueness of Normal Forms for Shallow Term Rewrite Systems

Nicholas Radcliffe, Luis Moraes, Rakesh Verma

Uniqueness of normal forms () is an important property of term rewrite systems. is decidable for ground (i.e., variable-free) systems and undecidable in general. Recen…

cs.LO2000

Static Analysis Techniques for Equational Logic Programming

Rakesh M. Verma

An equational logic program is a set of directed equations or rules, which are used to compute in the obvious way (by replacing equals with ``simpler'' equals). We present static a…