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MTD-Playground: An Attacker-Aware Evaluation Framework for Network Moving Target Defense
Mohammad Farhad, Mohoshin Ara Tahera, Padam Jung Thapa +2
The paper introduces MTD-Playground, a framework that evaluates how SDN‑based path‑randomization moving target defenses affect multi‑stage attacks, showing that frequent reconfigur…
Indirect Prompt Injection in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prevalence, Techniques, and Objectives
Soheil Khodayari, Xuenan Zhang, Bhupendra Acharya +1
As LLMs are increasingly integrated into systems that browse, retrieve, summarize, and act on web content, webpages have become an untrusted input vector for downstream model behav…
Private Links, Public Leaks: Consequences of Frictionless User Experience on the Security and Privacy Posture of SMS-Delivered URLs
Muhammad Danish, Enrique Sobrados, Priya Kaushik +5
Digital service providers often prioritize a frictionless user experience by adopting technologies that simplify access to their services. One widely used mechanism is the Short Me…
Pirates of Charity: Exploring Donation-based Abuses in Social Media Platforms
Bhupendra Acharya, Dario Lazzaro, Antonio Emanuele Cinà +1
With the widespread use of social media, organizations, and individuals use these platforms to raise funds and support causes. Unfortunately, this has led to the rise of scammers i…
An Explorative Study of Pig Butchering Scams
Bhupendra Acharya, Thorsten Holz
In the recent past, so-called pig-butchering scams are on the rise. This term is based on a translation of the Chinese term "Sha Zhu Pan", where scammers refer to victims as "pig"…
ScamChatBot: An End-to-End Analysis of Fake Account Recovery on Social Media via Chatbots
Bhupendra Acharya, Dominik Sautter, Muhammad Saad +1
Social media platforms have become the hubs for various user interactions covering a wide range of needs, including technical support and services related to brands, products, or u…