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SkillVet: Automated Traceability Analysis of Amazon Alexa Skills
Jide S Edu, Xavier Ferrer-Aran, Jose M Such +1
Third-party software, or skills, are essential components in Smart Personal Assistants (SPA). The number of skills has grown rapidly, dominated by a changing environment that has n…
Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud
Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Matthew Edwards, Claudia Peersman +3
Online romance scams are a prevalent form of mass-marketing fraud in the West, and yet few studies have addressed the technical or data-driven responses to this problem. In this ty…
A First Look at the Crypto-Mining Malware Ecosystem: A Decade of Unrestricted Wealth
Sergio Pastrana, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
Illicit crypto-mining leverages resources stolen from victims to mine cryptocurrencies on behalf of criminals. While recent works have analyzed one side of this threat, i.e.: web-b…
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and manipulate public opinion. This prompts the need to study their propagation, evolution, and influence across the Web. In this paper…
"You Know What to Do": Proactive Detection of YouTube Videos Targeted by Coordinated Hate Attacks
Enrico Mariconti, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Jeremy Blackburn +5
Video sharing platforms like YouTube are increasingly targeted by aggression and hate attacks. Prior work has shown how these attacks often take place as a result of "raids," i.e.,…
Eight Years of Rider Measurement in the Android Malware Ecosystem: Evolution and Lessons Learned
Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Gianluca Stringhini
Despite the growing threat posed by Android malware, the research community is still lacking a comprehensive view of common behaviors and trends exposed by malware families active…