Cyber Linguistics: An Exploration of Methodologies Use by Hackers to Tap the English Language for Social Engineering and Phishing Schemes
Bilure Suhasini Ramchandra1, Varsharani T. Dond2
1Research Scholar, School of Languages and Literature, Punyshlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Solapur University, Solapur.
2 Assistant Professor, PVG's College of Science and Commerce, Pune.
Email id: biluresuhasini@gmail.com , varshadond14@gmail.com
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Abstract
Cyber security threats have transcended traditional technical exploits, as cybercriminals directly adeptly leverage lingual deception to manipulate human cognition and behaviour. Cyber linguistics, an emerging interdisciplinary field, investigates how language is weaponized in digital environments to perform social engineering and phishing attacks. This paper examines the multifaceted methodologies apply by hackers to tap the English voice communication—centre on lexical ambiguity, syntactical reduction, discourse frame, and psychological sentiment—and desegregate insights from linguistics, psychology, computational analysis, and cyber security. By analyze authentic phishing emails, fallacious substance, and simulated social engineering handwriting, we discover the linguistic marking that point deception and talk about the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in automatize deception spying systems. The cogitation proposes an integrate theoretical account that immix linguistic analysis with traditional cyber security defense mechanism, proffer innovative scheme for heighten digital security. Our findings emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary inquiry in handle modernistic cyber threats and pave the way for future bailiwick in thwartwise-linguistic deception detective work and AI-labour cybersecurity.
Keywords: Cyber linguistics, social engineering, phishing blast, linguistic deception, Natural Language Processing (NLP), artificial intelligence service (AI), forensic linguistics, discourse analysis, cognitive biases, cybersecurity.
