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most citedBeyond Trolling: Malware-Induced Misperception Attacks on Polarized Facebook Discourse

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cs.HC20202 cited

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…

cs.CR2020

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…

cs.CR2019

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…

cs.HC2018

Sorry: Ambient Tactical Deception Via Malware-Based Social Engineering

Adam Trowbridge, Jessica Westbrook, Filipo Sharevski

In this paper we argue, drawing from the perspectives of cybersecurity and social psychology, that Internet-based manipulation of an individual or group reality using ambient tacti…

cs.HC2018

Malicious User Experience Design Research for Cybersecurity

Adam Trowbridge, Filipo Sharevski, Jessica Westbrook

This paper explores the factors and theory behind the user-centered research that is necessary to create a successful game-like prototype, and user experience, for malicious users…

cs.CY2018

Novel Approach for Cybersecurity Workforce Development: A Course in Secure Design

Filipo Sharevski, Adam Trowbridge, Jessica Westbrook

Training the future cybersecurity workforce to respond to emerging threats requires introduction of novel educational interventions into the cybersecurity curriculum. To be effecti…