A Transformer-based Model to Detect Phishing URLs
This addresses phishing attacks for cybersecurity, but it is incremental as it applies a known architecture to a specific domain.
The paper tackles phishing URL detection by introducing a transformer-based model that achieves 97.3% accuracy, outperforming six existing methods.
Phishing attacks are among emerging security issues that recently draws significant attention in the cyber security community. There are numerous existing approaches for phishing URL detection. However, malicious URL detection is still a research hotspot because attackers can bypass newly introduced detection mechanisms by changing their tactics. This paper will introduce a transformer-based malicious URL detection model, which has significant accuracy and outperforms current detection methods. We conduct experiments and compare them with six existing classical detection models. Experiments demonstrate that our transformer-based model is the best performing model from all perspectives among the seven models and achieves 97.3 % of detection accuracy.