3 papers
cs.CR2026
Measuring and Evaluating the Performance of Generative AI Models for Scam Detection
Cem Topcuoglu, Seyed Ali Akhavani, Harel Berger +5
Online scams continue to cause substantial financial and personal harm. As a result, detection systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have been integrated into security prod…
cs.CR2026
WAFFLED: Exploiting Parsing Discrepancies to Bypass Web Application Firewalls
Seyed Ali Akhavani, Bahruz Jabiyev, Ben Kallus +3
Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have been introduced as essential and popular security gates that inspect incoming HTTP traffic to filter out malicious requests and provide defens…
cs.CR2025
PriveShield: Enhancing User Privacy Using Automatic Isolated Profiles in Browsers
Seyed Ali Akhavani, Engin Kirda, Amin Kharraz
Online tracking is a widespread practice on the web with questionable ethics, security, and privacy concerns. While web tracking can offer personalized and curated content to Inter…