Phishing Awareness

Training Issues

Abstract

Phishing has been one of the most dangerous cyberattacks for quite a long time. Being a technically simple approach to implement for attackers, being quite well recognized by tools, having clearly recognizable features, this method of attack still remains operational. The reason is users who continue to follow prepared malicious links. It is people who turn out to be the weak link that ensures the success of phishing. Hence, much attention is paid in the world to educating (notifying) users about the dangers and characteristic features of phishing. In this article, we would like to focus on existing anti-phishing training programs in the world. Such programs exist at different levels: national, academic, in private companies. The basis of such training is the identification of phishing messages by students among real texts (email messages). Of particular interest is the NIST phishing scale, which allows you to assess the complexity of such training examples.

Author Biography

Dmitry Evgenyevich Namiot, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Leading Researcher of the Open Information Technologies Lab, Department of Information Security, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Dr. Sci. (Eng.)

Published
2025-07-21
How to Cite
NAMIOT, Dmitry Evgenyevich. Phishing Awareness. Modern Information Technologies and IT-Education, [S.l.], v. 21, n. 2, july 2025. ISSN 2411-1473. Available at: <http://sitito.cs.msu.ru/index.php/SITITO/article/view/1215>. Date accessed: 28 feb. 2026.
Section
Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Cybersecurity

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