openalexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026-07-24
PhishNet: A Cost-Sensitive Stacked-Ensemble Approach to Machine Learning-Based Phishing Website Detection
Jahnavi Somaraju, Dhanalakshmi G, Rakshitha V, Kavitha G, Rajani A
Real-world phishing traffic is heavily imbalanced — legitimate URLs vastly outnumber phishing ones in any live traffic stream — and the two error types carry different costs: a missed phishing site (false negative) can lead directly to credential theft, while a legitimate site wr…