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Beyond the Prank: The Hidden Expertise of TSS Scambaiters
Saleh Alsyefi, Anish Chand, Matthew Edwards +1
This research studies how Technical Support Scams (TSS) are being countered by a uniquely dedicated community of volunteer counter-fraud operatives. Using a careful subject selecti…
PP3D: An In-Browser Vision-Based Defense Against Web Behavior Manipulation Attacks
Spencer King, Irfan Ozen, Karthika Subramani +3
Web-based behavior-manipulation attacks (BMAs) - such as scareware, fake software downloads, tech support scams, etc. - are a class of social engineering (SE) attacks that exploit…
Conning the Crypto Conman: End-to-End Analysis of Cryptocurrency-based Technical Support Scams
Bhupendra Acharya, Muhammad Saad, Antonio Emanuele Cinà +5
The mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies has led to a surge in wallet-related issues reported by ordinary users on social media platforms. In parallel, there is an increase in a…
SENet: Visual Detection of Online Social Engineering Attack Campaigns
Irfan Ozen, Karthika Subramani, Phani Vadrevu +1
Social engineering (SE) aims at deceiving users into performing actions that may compromise their security and privacy. These threats exploit weaknesses in human's decision making…
A Study of Feasibility and Diversity of Web Audio Fingerprints
Shekhar Chalise, Phani Vadrevu
Prior measurement studies on browser fingerprinting have unfortunately largely excluded Web Audio API-based fingerprinting in their analysis. We address this issue by conducting th…
Measuring Abuse in Web Push Advertising
Karthika Subramani, Xingzi Yuan, Omid Setayeshfar +3
The rapid growth of online advertising has fueled the growth of ad-blocking software, such as new ad-blocking and privacy-oriented browsers or browser extensions. In response, both…