5 papers
Meme Coin Factories: Uncovering Large-Scale Manipulations on pump.fun
Nicolas Szwajcok, Taro Tsuchiya, Enze Liu +3
Once complex, creating and deploying a new cryptocurrency has become trivial. Coin launchpads now allow users to generate a new coin with merely a few clicks, at a minimal cost. La…
Anatomy of a Digital Bubble: Lessons Learned from the NFT and Metaverse Frenzy
Daisuke Kawai, Kyle Soska, Bryan Routledge +2
In the past few years, "metaverse" and "non-fungible tokens (NFT)" have become buzzwords, and the prices of related assets have exhibited large fluctuations. Are those characterist…
Blockchain Address Poisoning
Taro Tsuchiya, Jin-Dong Dong, Kyle Soska +1
In many blockchains, e.g., Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), the primary representation used for wallet addresses is a hardly memorable 40-digit hexadecimal string. As a result,…
Joint Hacking and Latent Hazard Rate Estimation
Ziqi Liu, Alexander J. Smola, Kyle Soska +2
In this paper we describe an algorithm for predicting the websites at risk in a long range hacking activity, while jointly inferring the provenance and evolution of vulnerabilities…
Attributing Hacks
Ziqi Liu, Alexander J. Smola, Kyle Soska +3
In this paper we describe an algorithm for estimating the provenance of hacks on websites. That is, given properties of sites and the temporal occurrence of attacks, we are able to…