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Susceptibility to Spear-Phishing Emails
July 2019 • Tian Lin, Daniel E. Capecci, Donovan M. Ellis, Harold A. Rocha, Sandeep Dommaraju, Daniela S Oliveira, Natalie C. Ebner
Phishing is fundamental to cyber attacks. This research determined the effect of Internet user age and email content such as weapons of influence (persuasive techniques that attackers can use to lure individuals to fall for an attack) and life domains (a specific topic or aspect of an individual's life that attackers can focus an email on) on spear-phishing (targeted phishing) susceptibility. In total, 100 young and 58 older users received, without their knowledge, daily simulated phishing emails over 21 days. A b…