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most citedUnderstanding Incentivized Mobile App Installs on Google Play Store

19 citations · 22 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

A Girl Has A Name, And It's ... Adversarial Authorship Attribution for Deobfuscation

Wanyue Zhai, Jonathan Rusert, Zubair Shafiq +1

Recent advances in natural language processing have enabled powerful privacy-invasive authorship attribution. To counter authorship attribution, researchers have proposed a variety…

cs.CL2022

On The Robustness of Offensive Language Classifiers

Jonathan Rusert, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan

Social media platforms are deploying machine learning based offensive language classification systems to combat hateful, racist, and other forms of offensive speech at scale. Howev…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Avengers Ensemble! Improving Transferability of Authorship Obfuscation

Muhammad Haroon, Fareed Zaffar, Padmini Srinivasan +1

Stylometric approaches have been shown to be quite effective for real-world authorship attribution. To mitigate the privacy threat posed by authorship attribution, researchers have…

cs.CY2020★ 19 cited

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…

cs.CY2020

CanaryTrap: Detecting Data Misuse by Third-Party Apps on Online Social Networks

Shehroze Farooqi, Maaz Musa, Zubair Shafiq +1

Online social networks support a vibrant ecosystem of third-party apps that get access to personal information of a large number of users. Despite several recent high-profile incid…

cs.CL2020

A Girl Has A Name: Detecting Authorship Obfuscation

Asad Mahmood, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan

Authorship attribution aims to identify the author of a text based on the stylometric analysis. Authorship obfuscation, on the other hand, aims to protect against authorship attrib…

cs.CY2015

Characterizing Key Stakeholders in an Online Black-Hat Marketplace

Shehroze Farooqi, Muhammad Ikram, Emiliano De Cristofaro +5

Over the past few years, many black-hat marketplaces have emerged that facilitate access to reputation manipulation services such as fake Facebook likes, fraudulent search engine o…