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most citedIs Cryptojacking Dead after Coinhive Shutdown?

30 citations · 65 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CR2026

Detecting Fileless Cryptojacking in PowerShell Using AST-Enhanced CodeBERT Models

Said Varlioglu, Nelly Elsayed, Murat Ozer +2

With the emergence of remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in ubiquitous libraries and advanced social engineering techniques, threat actors have started conducting widespre…

cs.DL2025

Identifying Information Technology Research Trends through Text Mining of NSF Awards

Said Varlioglu, Hazem Said, Murat Ozer +1

Information Technology (IT) is recognized as an independent and unique research field. However, there has been ambiguity and difficulty in identifying and differentiating IT resear…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

The Pulse of Fileless Cryptojacking Attacks: Malicious PowerShell Scripts

Said Varlioglu, Nelly Elsayed, Eva Ruhsar Varlioglu +2

Fileless malware predominantly relies on PowerShell scripts, leveraging the native capabilities of Windows systems to execute stealthy attacks that leave no traces on the victim's…

cs.SI2023

Exploring the Journey to Drug Overdose: Applying the Journey to Crime Framework to Drug Sales Locations and Overdose Death Locations

Murat Ozer, Ismail Onat, Halil Akbas +3

Drug overdose is a pressing public health concern in the United States, resulting in a significant number of fatalities each year. In this study, we employ the Journey to Crime (JT…

cs.CR2022★ 7 cited

The Dangerous Combo: Fileless Malware and Cryptojacking

Said Varlioglu, Nelly Elsayed, Zag ElSayed +1

Fileless malware and cryptojacking attacks have appeared independently as the new alarming threats in 2017. After 2020, fileless attacks have been devastating for victim organizati…

cs.CY2020

Explaining the Relationship between Internet and Democracy in Partly Free Countries Using Machine Learning Models

Mustafa Sagir, Said Varlioglu

Previous studies have offered a variety of explanations on the relationship between democracy and the internet. However, most of these studies concentrate on regions, specific stat…