A survey on anti-phishing techniques in mobile phones

There is an exponential growth in use of smartphones and mobile internet. This is accelerated by the availability of smartphone and data plans at a very low cost. Smart phones are used from socializing to banking activities. Smartphones are not used only by the tech savvy generation; all age groups today use smartphones. Hence the numbers of possible victims' increases day by day and thus mobile devices have become appealing and easy targets to the attackers. Therefore implementation of security measures in these devices is essential. Security measures available for smart phone are not yet mature to detect zero day phishing attack. We focus on phishing attacks in smartphones and surveyed the currently available tools for mobile devices.