In recent decades,the proliferation of email communication has markedly escalated,resulting in a concomitant surge in spam emails that congest networks and presenting security risks.This study introduces an innovative...In recent decades,the proliferation of email communication has markedly escalated,resulting in a concomitant surge in spam emails that congest networks and presenting security risks.This study introduces an innovative spam detection method utilizing the Horse Herd Optimization Algorithm(HHOA),designed for binary classification within multi⁃objective framework.The method proficiently identifies essential features,minimizing redundancy and improving classification precision.The suggested HHOA attained an impressive accuracy of 97.21%on the Kaggle email dataset,with precision of 94.30%,recall of 90.50%,and F1⁃score of 92.80%.Compared to conventional techniques,such as Support Vector Machine(93.89%accuracy),Random Forest(96.14%accuracy),and K⁃Nearest Neighbours(92.08%accuracy),HHOA exhibited enhanced performance with reduced computing complexity.The suggested method demonstrated enhanced feature selection efficiency,decreasing the number of selected features while maintaining high classification accuracy.The results underscore the efficacy of HHOA in spam identification and indicate its potential for further applications in practical email filtering systems.展开更多
Phishing email detection represents a critical research challenge in cybersecurity.To address this,this paper proposes a novel Double-S(statistical-semantic)feature model based on three core entities involved in email...Phishing email detection represents a critical research challenge in cybersecurity.To address this,this paper proposes a novel Double-S(statistical-semantic)feature model based on three core entities involved in email communication:the sender,recipient,and email content.We employ strategic game theory to analyze the offensive strategies of phishing attackers and defensive strategies of protectors,extracting statistical features from these entities.We also leverage the Qwen large language model to excavate implicit semantic features(e.g.,emotional manipulation and social engineering tactics)from email content.By integrating statistical and semantic features,our model achieves a robust representation of phishing emails.We introduce a hybrid detection model that integrates a convolutional neural network(CNN)module with the XGBoost(Extreme Gradient Boosting)classifier,effectively capturing local correlations in high-dimensional features.Experimental results on real-world phishing email datasets demonstrate the superiority of our approach,achieving an F1-score of 0.9587,precision of 0.9591,and recall of 0.9583,representing improvements of 1.3%–10.6%compared to state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
文摘In recent decades,the proliferation of email communication has markedly escalated,resulting in a concomitant surge in spam emails that congest networks and presenting security risks.This study introduces an innovative spam detection method utilizing the Horse Herd Optimization Algorithm(HHOA),designed for binary classification within multi⁃objective framework.The method proficiently identifies essential features,minimizing redundancy and improving classification precision.The suggested HHOA attained an impressive accuracy of 97.21%on the Kaggle email dataset,with precision of 94.30%,recall of 90.50%,and F1⁃score of 92.80%.Compared to conventional techniques,such as Support Vector Machine(93.89%accuracy),Random Forest(96.14%accuracy),and K⁃Nearest Neighbours(92.08%accuracy),HHOA exhibited enhanced performance with reduced computing complexity.The suggested method demonstrated enhanced feature selection efficiency,decreasing the number of selected features while maintaining high classification accuracy.The results underscore the efficacy of HHOA in spam identification and indicate its potential for further applications in practical email filtering systems.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2023YFB3105700).
文摘Phishing email detection represents a critical research challenge in cybersecurity.To address this,this paper proposes a novel Double-S(statistical-semantic)feature model based on three core entities involved in email communication:the sender,recipient,and email content.We employ strategic game theory to analyze the offensive strategies of phishing attackers and defensive strategies of protectors,extracting statistical features from these entities.We also leverage the Qwen large language model to excavate implicit semantic features(e.g.,emotional manipulation and social engineering tactics)from email content.By integrating statistical and semantic features,our model achieves a robust representation of phishing emails.We introduce a hybrid detection model that integrates a convolutional neural network(CNN)module with the XGBoost(Extreme Gradient Boosting)classifier,effectively capturing local correlations in high-dimensional features.Experimental results on real-world phishing email datasets demonstrate the superiority of our approach,achieving an F1-score of 0.9587,precision of 0.9591,and recall of 0.9583,representing improvements of 1.3%–10.6%compared to state-of-the-art methods.
