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Phishing detection models vulnerable to adversarial attacks, study finds

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A new study published on arXiv compares the effectiveness of two machine learning models, TF-IDF + Logistic Regression and a fine-tuned DistilBERT transformer, in detecting phishing emails. While both models achieved over 98% accuracy on standard test data, their performance significantly degraded when subjected to adversarial attacks designed to evade detection. The TF-IDF + LR model dropped to 64.00% accuracy, and DistilBERT fell to 63.64%, highlighting a similar vulnerability to adversarial manipulation. The research emphasizes the need for adversarial testing to be a standard part of phishing detection evaluation, as clean-data accuracy does not predict robustness against such attacks. AI

IMPACT Highlights the need for robust evaluation of AI models against adversarial attacks, particularly in cybersecurity applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a comparative study of machine learning models for a specific task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Tanveer Ahmed, Seyedali Pourmoafil ·

    Adversarial Robustness of Phishing Email Detection: A Comparative Study of TF-IDF + Logistic Regression and Fine-Tuned DistilBERT

    arXiv:2607.18429v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Phishing emails remain one of the most persistent cybersecurity threats, and machine-learning classifiers are widely used to detect them. Most reported detection accuracies, however, are measured on clean, in-distribution test dat…

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