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From Beats to Breaches:How Offensive AI Infers Sensitive User Information from Playlists
Stefano Cecconello, Mauro Conti, Luca Pajola +2
The pervasive integration of AI has enabled Offensive AI: the exploitation of AI for malicious ends across the cyber-kill chain. A critical manifestation is the user attribute infe…
Elephant in the Room: Dissecting and Reflecting on the Evolution of Online Social Network Research
Luca Pajola, Saskia Laura Schröer, Pier Paolo Tricomi +2
Billions of individuals engage with Online Social Networks (OSN) daily. The owners of OSN try to meet the demands of their end-users while complying with business necessities. Such…
"All of Me": Mining Users' Attributes from their Public Spotify Playlists
Pier Paolo Tricomi, Luca Pajola, Luca Pasa +1
In the age of digital music streaming, playlists on platforms like Spotify have become an integral part of individuals' musical experiences. People create and publicly share their…
Twitter Bots Influence on the Russo-Ukrainian War During the 2022 Italian General Elections
Francesco Luigi De Faveri, Luca Cosuti, Pier Paolo Tricomi +1
In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This event had global repercussions, especially on the political decisions of European countries. As expected, t…
Social Honeypot for Humans: Luring People through Self-managed Instagram Pages
Sara Bardi, Mauro Conti, Luca Pajola +1
Social Honeypots are tools deployed in Online Social Networks (OSN) to attract malevolent activities performed by spammers and bots. To this end, their content is designed to be of…
Follow Us and Become Famous! Insights and Guidelines From Instagram Engagement Mechanisms
Pier Paolo Tricomi, Marco Chilese, Mauro Conti +1
With 1.3 billion users, Instagram (IG) has also become a business tool. IG influencer marketing, expected to generate $33.25 billion in 2022, encourages companies and influencers t…
Thermal (and Hybrid Thermal/Audio) Side-Channel Attacks on Keyboard Input
Tyler Kaczmarek, Ercan Ozturk, Pier Paolo Tricomi +1
To date, there has been no systematic investigation of thermal profiles of keyboards, and thus no efforts have been made to secure them. This serves as our main motivation for cons…
Attribute Inference Attacks in Online Multiplayer Video Games: a Case Study on Dota2
Pier Paolo Tricomi, Lisa Facciolo, Giovanni Apruzzese +1
Did you know that over 70 million of Dota2 players have their in-game data freely accessible? What if such data is used in malicious ways? This paper is the first to investigate su…
You Can't Hide Behind Your Headset: User Profiling in Augmented and Virtual Reality
Pier Paolo Tricomi, Federica Nenna, Luca Pajola +2
Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR) are increasingly gaining traction thanks to their technical advancement and the need for remote connections, recently accentuated by the pand…
Are We All in a Truman Show? Spotting Instagram Crowdturfing through Self-Training
Pier Paolo Tricomi, Sousan Tarahomi, Christian Cattai +2
Influencer Marketing generated $16 billion in 2022. Usually, the more popular influencers are paid more for their collaborations. Thus, many services were created to boost profiles…
Captcha Attack: Turning Captchas Against Humanity
Mauro Conti, Luca Pajola, Pier Paolo Tricomi
Nowadays, people generate and share massive content on online platforms (e.g., social networks, blogs). In 2021, the 1.9 billion daily active Facebook users posted around 150 thous…