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TrollHunter [Evader]: Automated Detection [Evasion] of Twitter Trolls During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Peter Jachim, Filipo Sharevski, Paige Treebridge
This paper presents TrollHunter, an automated reasoning mechanism we used to hunt for trolls on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Trolls, poised to disrupt the online d…
Beyond Trolling: Malware-Induced Misperception Attacks on Polarized Facebook Discourse
Filipo Sharevski, Paige Treebridge, Peter Jachim +3
Social media trolling is a powerful tactic to manipulate public opinion on issues with a high moral component. Troll farms, as evidenced in the past, created fabricated content to…
Meet Malexa, Alexa's Malicious Twin: Malware-Induced Misperception Through Intelligent Voice Assistants
Filipo Sharevski, Paige Treebridge, Peter Jachim +3
This paper reports the findings of a study where users (N=220) interacted with Malexa, Alexa's malicious twin. Malexa is an intelligent voice assistant with a simple and seemingly…
Manipulation of Perceived Politeness in a Web-based Email Discourse Through a Malicious Browser Extension
Filipo Sharevski, Paige Treebridge, Jessica Westbrook
This paper presents a specific man-in-the-middle exploit: Ambient Tactical Deception (ATD) in online communication, realized via a malicious web browser extension. Extensions manip…