A social-engineering-centric data collection initiative to study phishing
Federico Maggi, Alessandro Sisto, Stefano Zanero · 2011
Phishers nowadays rely on a variety of channels, ranging from old-fashioned emails to instant messages, social networks, and the phone system (with both calls and text messages), with the goal of reaching more victims. As a consequence, modern phishing became a multi-faceted, even more pervasive threat that is inherently more difficult to study than traditional, email-based phishing.