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Achievement Unlocked: Let's Get Hacked! An Empirical Study of Cybercrime in the Video Gaming Ecosystem
Janine Schneider, Jan Kallenborn, Tim Hoffmann +3
The ubiquity of the video game industry and its large user base have transformed video games into complex social and economic ecosystems. Unfortunately, this growing popularity als…
Pirates of Charity: Exploring Donation-based Abuses in Social Media Platforms
Bhupendra Acharya, Dario Lazzaro, Antonio Emanuele Cinà +1
With the widespread use of social media, organizations, and individuals use these platforms to raise funds and support causes. Unfortunately, this has led to the rise of scammers i…
An Explorative Study of Pig Butchering Scams
Bhupendra Acharya, Thorsten Holz
In the recent past, so-called pig-butchering scams are on the rise. This term is based on a translation of the Chinese term "Sha Zhu Pan", where scammers refer to victims as "pig"…
ScamChatBot: An End-to-End Analysis of Fake Account Recovery on Social Media via Chatbots
Bhupendra Acharya, Dominik Sautter, Muhammad Saad +1
Social media platforms have become the hubs for various user interactions covering a wide range of needs, including technical support and services related to brands, products, or u…
Exploration of the Dynamics of Buy and Sale of Social Media Accounts
Mario Beluri, Bhupendra Acharya, Soheil Khodayari +3
There has been a rise in online platforms facilitating the buying and selling of social media accounts. While the trade of social media profiles is not inherently illegal, social m…
HexaCoder: Secure Code Generation via Oracle-Guided Synthetic Training Data
Hossein Hajipour, Lea Schönherr, Thorsten Holz +1
Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential for automatic code generation and form the basis for various tools such as GitHub Copilot. However, recent studies highlight…
AI-Generated Faces in the Real World: A Large-Scale Case Study of Twitter Profile Images
Jonas Ricker, Dennis Assenmacher, Thorsten Holz +2
Recent advances in the field of generative artificial intelligence (AI) have blurred the lines between authentic and machine-generated content, making it almost impossible for huma…
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…
A Representative Study on Human Detection of Artificially Generated Media Across Countries
Joel Frank, Franziska Herbert, Jonas Ricker +5
AI-generated media has become a threat to our digital society as we know it. These forgeries can be created automatically and on a large scale based on publicly available technolog…