Hossein Siadati, Toan Nguyen and Nasir D. Memon
Anti-phishing techniques intended to reduce the delivery rate of phishing emails, and anti-phishing trainings meant to decrease the phishing click-through rates. This paper presents the X-Platform Phishing Attack, a deceptive phishing attack with an alarmingly high delivery and click-through rates, and highlights a subset of the challenges that existing anti-phishing methods have fallen short to address. In this attack, an attacker embeds a malicious link within a legitimate message generated by a service provider. This attack can bypass the existing anti-phishing filters because the attacker uses the email ID of a reputable service provider to generate a seemingly legitimate email.