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Stablecoins: Fundamentals, Emerging Issues, and Open Challenges
Ahmed Mahrous, Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro
Stablecoins, with a capitalization exceeding 200 billion USD as of January 2025, have shown significant growth, with annual transaction volumes exceeding 10 trillion dollars in 202…
Characterizing Polkadot's Transactions Ecosystem: methodology, tools, and insights
Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro, Flavio Lombardi +1
The growth potential of a crypto(currency) project can be measured by the use cases spurred by the underlying technology. However, these projects are usually distributed, with a we…
Watch Nearby! Privacy Analysis of the People Nearby Service of Telegram
Maurantonio Caprolu, Savio Sciancalepore, Aleksandar Grigorov +2
People Nearby is a service offered by Telegram that allows a user to discover other Telegram users, based only on geographical proximity. Nearby users are reported with a rough est…
Characterizing the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian Conflict Through the Lenses of Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Dataset, Methodology, and Preliminary Findings
Maurantonio Caprolu, Alireza Sadighian, Roberto Di Pietro
Online social networks (OSNs) play a crucial role in today's world. On the one hand, they allow free speech, information sharing, and social-movements organization, to cite a few.…
Analysis of Polkadot: Architecture, Internals, and Contradictions
Hanaa Abbas, Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro
Polkadot is a network protocol launched in 2020 with the ambition of unlocking the full potential of blockchain technologies. Its novel multi-chain protocol allows arbitrary data t…
A Novel Framework for the Analysis of Unknown Transactions in Bitcoin: Theory, Model, and Experimental Results
Maurantonio Caprolu, Matteo Pontecorvi, Matteo Signorini +2
Bitcoin (BTC) is probably the most transparent payment network in the world, thanks to the full history of transactions available to the public. Though, Bitcoin is not a fully anon…
Vessels Cybersecurity: Issues, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro, Simone Raponi +2
Vessels cybersecurity is recently gaining momentum, as a result of a few recent attacks to vessels at sea. These recent attacks have shacked the maritime domain, which was thought…
Short-Range Audio Channels Security: Survey of Mechanisms, Applications, and Research Challenges
Maurantonio Caprolu, Savio Sciancalepore, Roberto Di Pietro
Short-range audio channels have a few distinguishing characteristics: ease of use, low deployment costs, and easy to tune frequencies, to cite a few. Moreover, thanks to their seam…
Cryptomining Makes Noise: a Machine Learning Approach for Cryptojacking Detection
Maurantonio Caprolu, Simone Raponi, Gabriele Oligeri +1
A new cybersecurity attack,where an adversary illicitly runs crypto-mining software over the devices of unaware users, is emerging in both the literature and in the wild . This att…
Foundations, Properties, and Security Applications of Puzzles: A Survey
Isra Mohamed Ali, Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro
Cryptographic algorithms have been used not only to create robust ciphertexts but also to generate cryptograms that, contrary to the classic goal of cryptography, are meant to be b…