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Behind the Curtain: How Shared Hosting Providers Respond to Vulnerability Notifications
Giada Stivala, Rafael Mrowczynski, Maria Hellenthal +1
Large-scale vulnerability notifications (VNs) can help hosting provider organizations (HPOs) identify and remediate security vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit in data brea…
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…
Uncovering the Role of Support Infrastructure in Clickbait PDF Campaigns
Giada Stivala, Gianluca De Stefano, Andrea Mengascini +2
Clickbait PDFs, an entry point for multiple Web attacks, are distributed via SEO poisoning and rank high in search results due to being massively uploaded on abused or compromised…
From Attachments to SEO: Click Here to Learn More about Clickbait PDFs!
Giada Stivala, Sahar Abdelnabi, Andrea Mengascini +3
Clickbait PDFs are PDF documents that do not embed malware but trick victims into visiting malicious web pages leading to attacks like password theft or drive-by download. While re…