Attention-Based 1D CNN-BiLSTM Hybrid Model Enhanced with FastText Word Embedding for Korean Voice Phishing Detection

Milandu Keith Moussavou Boussougou and Dong-Joo Park ()
Additional contact information
Milandu Keith Moussavou Boussougou: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea
Dong-Joo Park: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 14, 1-25

Abstract: In the increasingly complex domain of Korean voice phishing attacks, advanced detection techniques are paramount. Traditional methods have achieved some degree of success. However, they often fail to detect sophisticated voice phishing attacks, highlighting an urgent need for enhanced approaches to improve detection performance. Addressing this, we have designed and implemented a novel artificial neural network (ANN) architecture that successfully combines data-centric and model-centric AI methodologies for detecting Korean voice phishing attacks. This paper presents our unique hybrid architecture, consisting of a 1-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (1D CNN), a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM), and Hierarchical Attention Networks (HANs). Our evaluations using the real-world KorCCVi v2 dataset demonstrate that the proposed architecture effectively leverages the strengths of CNN and BiLSTM to extract and learn contextually rich features from word embedding vectors. Additionally, implementing word and sentence attention mechanisms from HANs enhances the model’s focus on crucial features, considerably improving detection performance. Achieving an accuracy score of 99.32% and an F1 score of 99.31%, our model surpasses all baseline models we trained, outperforms several existing solutions, and maintains comparable performance to others. The findings of this study underscore the potential of hybrid neural network architectures in improving voice phishing detection in the Korean language and pave the way for future research. This could involve refining and expanding upon this model to tackle increasingly sophisticated voice phishing strategies effectively or utilizing larger datasets.

Keywords: voice phishing; phishing; artificial intelligence; natural language processing; deep learning; attention mechanism; text classification; data-centric AI; model-centric AI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/11/14/3217/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/11/14/3217/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:11:y:2023:i:14:p:3217-:d:1199775

Access Statistics for this article

Mathematics is currently edited by Ms. Emma He

More articles in Mathematics from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().