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Analysing Multidisciplinary Approaches to Fight Large-Scale Digital Influence Operations
David Arroyo, Rafael Mata Milla, Marc Almeida Ros +4
Crime as a Service (CaaS) has evolved from isolated criminal incidents to a broad spectrum of illicit activities, including social media manipulation, foreign information manipulat…
Just in Plain Sight: Unveiling CSAM Distribution Campaigns on the Clear Web
Nikolaos Lykousas, Constantinos Patsakis
Child sexual abuse is among the most hideous crimes, yet, after the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a huge surge in the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Traditionall…
The potential of LLM-generated reports in DevSecOps
Nikolaos Lykousas, Vasileios Argyropoulos, Fran Casino
Alert fatigue is a common issue faced by software teams using the DevSecOps paradigm. The overwhelming number of warnings and alerts generated by security and code scanning tools,…
Assessing LLMs in Malicious Code Deobfuscation of Real-world Malware Campaigns
Constantinos Patsakis, Fran Casino, Nikolaos Lykousas
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into various pipelines is increasingly widespread, effectively automating many manual tasks and often surpassing human capabilities.…
Tales from the Git: Automating the detection of secrets on code and assessing developers' passwords choices
Nikolaos Lykousas, Constantinos Patsakis
Typical users are known to use and reuse weak passwords. Yet, as cybersecurity concerns continue to rise, understanding the password practices of software developers becomes increa…
Man vs the machine: The Struggle for Effective Text Anonymisation in the Age of Large Language Models
Constantinos Patsakis, Nikolaos Lykousas
The collection and use of personal data are becoming more common in today's data-driven culture. While there are many advantages to this, including better decision-making and servi…
The Cynicism of Modern Cybercrime: Automating the Analysis of Surface Web Marketplaces
Nikolaos Lykousas, Vasilios Koutsokostas, Fran Casino +1
Cybercrime is continuously growing in numbers and becoming more sophisticated. Currently, there are various monetisation and money laundering methods, creating a huge, underground…
Analysis and Correlation of Visual Evidence in Campaigns of Malicious Office Documents
Fran Casino, Nikolaos Totosis, Theodoros Apostolopoulos +2
Many malware campaigns use Microsoft (MS) Office documents as droppers to download and execute their malicious payload. Such campaigns often use these documents because MS Office i…
Inside the x-rated world of "premium" social media accounts
Nikolaos Lykousas, Fran Casino, Constantinos Patsakis
During the last few years, there has been an upsurge of social media influencers who are part of the adult entertainment industry, referred to as Performers. To monetize their onli…
Intercepting Hail Hydra: Real-Time Detection of Algorithmically Generated Domains
Fran Casino, Nikolaos Lykousas, Ivan Homoliak +2
A crucial technical challenge for cybercriminals is to keep control over the potentially millions of infected devices that build up their botnets, without compromising the robustne…
Large-scale analysis of grooming in modern social networks
Nikolaos Lykousas, Constantinos Patsakis
Social networks are evolving to engage their users more by providing them with more functionalities. One of the most attracting ones is streaming. Users may broadcast part of their…
Unravelling Ariadne's Thread: Exploring the Threats of Decentalised DNS
Constantinos Patsakis, Fran Casino, Nikolaos Lykousas +1
The current landscape of the core Internet technologies shows considerable centralisation with the big tech companies controlling the vast majority of traffic and services. This ha…
Sharing emotions at scale: The Vent dataset
Nikolaos Lykousas, Costantinos Patsakis, Andreas Kaltenbrunner +1
The continuous and increasing use of social media has enabled the expression of human thoughts, opinions, and everyday actions publicly at an unprecedented scale. We present the Ve…
Adult content in Social Live Streaming Services: Characterizing deviant users and relationships
Nikolaos Lykousas, Vicenç Gómez, Constantinos Patsakis
Social Live Stream Services (SLSS) exploit a new level of social interaction. One of the main challenges in these services is how to detect and prevent deviant behaviors that viola…