3 papers
cs.CR2025
Inside LockBit: Technical, Behavioral, and Financial Anatomy of a Ransomware Empire
Felipe Castaño, Constantinos Patsakis, Francesco Zola +1
LockBit has evolved from an obscure Ransomware-as-a-Service newcomer in 2019 to the most prolific ransomware franchise of 2024. Leveraging a recently leaked MySQL dump of the gang'…
cs.CR2025
PhishKey: A Novel Centroid-Based Approach for Enhanced Phishing Detection Using Adaptive HTML Component Extraction
Felipe Castaño, Eduardo Fidalgo, Enrique Alegre +3
Phishing attacks pose a significant cybersecurity threat, evolving rapidly to bypass detection mechanisms and exploit human vulnerabilities. This paper introduces PhishKey to addre…
cs.CR2021
State of the Art: Content-based and Hybrid Phishing Detection
F. Castaño, E. Fidalgo, E. Alegre +2
Phishing attacks have evolved and increased over time and, for this reason, the task of distinguishing between a legitimate site and a phishing site is more and more difficult, foo…