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A Truckload of Satoshis: Detecting and Measuring One-Way Arbitrage in the Wild
Eugenio Nerio Nemmi, Tobias Lauinger, Paz Grimberg +3
Centralized cryptocurrency exchanges (CEXes) enable fast off-chain conversions between hundreds of coins. It is an open question which algorithmic trading patterns occur on these p…
Money Over Morals: A Business Analysis of Conti Ransomware
Ian W. Gray, Jack Cable, Benjamin Brown +2
Ransomware operations have evolved from relatively unsophisticated threat actors into highly coordinated cybercrime syndicates that regularly extort millions of dollars in a single…
Understanding the (In)Effectiveness of Content Moderation: A Case Study of Facebook in the Context of the U.S. Capitol Riot
Ian Goldstein, Laura Edelson, Minh-Kha Nguyen +3
Social media networks commonly employ content moderation as a tool to limit the spread of harmful content. However, the efficacy of this strategy in limiting the delivery of harmfu…
Conspiracy Brokers: Understanding the Monetization of YouTube Conspiracy Theories
Cameron Ballard, Ian Goldstein, Pulak Mehta +6
Conspiracy theories are increasingly a subject of research interest as society grapples with their rapid growth in areas such as politics or public health. Previous work has establ…
Ethics and Efficacy of Unsolicited Anti-Trafficking SMS Outreach
Rasika Bhalerao, Nora McDonald, Hanna Barakat +3
The sex industry exists on a continuum based on the degree of work autonomy present in labor conditions: a high degree exists on one side of the continuum where independent sex wor…
"I'm a Professor, which isn't usually a dangerous job": Internet-Facilitated Harassment and its Impact on Researchers
Periwinkle Doerfler, Andrea Forte, Emiliano De Cristofaro +3
While the Internet has dramatically increased the exposure that research can receive, it has also facilitated harassment against scholars. To understand the impact that these attac…
The illicit trade of COVID-19 vaccines on the dark web
Alberto Bracci, Matthieu Nadini, Maxwell Aliapoulios +5
Early analyses revealed that dark web marketplaces (DWMs) started offering COVID-19 related products (e.g., masks and COVID-19 tests) as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic started, when…
Understanding Incentivized Mobile App Installs on Google Play Store
Shehroze Farooqi, Álvaro Feal, Tobias Lauinger +3
"Incentivized" advertising platforms allow mobile app developers to acquire new users by directly paying users to install and engage with mobile apps (e.g., create an account, make…
Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: before the vaccine
Alberto Bracci, Matthieu Nadini, Maxwell Aliapoulios +5
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the demand for goods and services worldwide. The combination of a public health emergency, economic distress, and misinformation-driven panic hav…
The Tools and Tactics Used in Intimate Partner Surveillance: An Analysis of Online Infidelity Forums
Emily Tseng, Rosanna Bellini, Nora McDonald +5
Abusers increasingly use spyware apps, account compromise, and social engineering to surveil their intimate partners, causing substantial harms that can culminate in violence. This…
Empirical Analysis of Indirect Internal Conversions in Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Paz Grimberg, Tobias Lauinger, Damon McCoy
Algorithmic trading is well studied in traditional financial markets. However, it has received less attention in centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. The Commodity Futures Trading…
An Analysis of United States Online Political Advertising Transparency
Laura Edelson, Shikhar Sakhuja, Ratan Dey +1
During the summer of 2018, Facebook, Google, and Twitter created policies and implemented transparent archives that include U.S. political advertisements which ran on their platfor…
Towards Automatic Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains
Rasika Bhalerao, Maxwell Aliapoulios, Ilia Shumailov +2
Cybercrime forums enable modern criminal entrepreneurs to collaborate with other criminals into increasingly efficient and sophisticated criminal endeavors. Understanding the conne…
Under the Underground: Predicting Private Interactions in Underground Forums
Rebekah Overdorf, Carmela Troncoso, Rachel Greenstadt +1
Underground forums where users discuss, buy, and sell illicit services and goods facilitate a better understanding of the economy and organization of cybercriminals. Prior work has…
Identifying Products in Online Cybercrime Marketplaces: A Dataset for Fine-grained Domain Adaptation
Greg Durrett, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +5
One weakness of machine-learned NLP models is that they typically perform poorly on out-of-domain data. In this work, we study the task of identifying products being bought and sol…
Stress Testing the Booters: Understanding and Undermining the Business of DDoS Services
Mohammad Karami, Youngsam Park, Damon McCoy
DDoS-for-hire services, also known as booters, have commoditized DDoS attacks and enabled abusive subscribers of these services to cheaply extort, harass and intimidate businesses…