An Empirical Analysis of Phishing Simulation to Mitigate Social Engineering Attacks
Journal: Preprints.org
Year: 2025

Phishing remains one of the most prevalent and damaging forms of cyberattacks, exploiting human behavior rather than technical vulnerabilities. Despite technological advancements in email filtering, anomaly detection, and two-factor authentication, phishing continues to succeed by manipulating trust, authority, and urgency cues in unsuspecting users [1,5,14]. This study presents an empirical analysis of a phishing simulation conducted in a university setting to assess user susceptibility and pro