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Something to Talk About: Social Media as a Lens on Healthcare Ransomware Events
Seoyoung Kweon, Paul Chung, Isabel Straw +5
In the modern era, ransomware attacks on critical healthcare organizations---like hospitals and insurers---are frequent, with impacts ranging from leaked private health information…
Victim as a Service: Designing a System for Engaging with Interactive Scammers
Daniel Spokoyny, Nikolai Vogler, Xin Gao +7
Pig butchering, and similar interactive online scams, lower their victims' defenses by building trust over extended periods of conversation - sometimes weeks or months. They have b…
Count of Monte Crypto: Accounting-based Defenses for Cross-Chain Bridges
Enze Liu, Elisa Luo, Jian Chen Yan +5
Between 2021 and 2023, crypto assets valued at over $US2.6 billion were stolen via attacks on "bridges" -- decentralized services designed to allow inter-blockchain exchange. Whil…
Give and Take: An End-To-End Investigation of Giveaway Scam Conversion Rates
Enze Liu, George Kappos, Eric Mugnier +6
Scams -- fraudulent schemes designed to swindle money from victims -- have existed for as long as recorded history. However, the Internet's combination of low communication cost, g…
Using Honeybuckets to Characterize Cloud Storage Scanning in the Wild
Katherine Izhikevich, Geoff Voelker, Stefan Savage +1
In this work, we analyze to what extent actors target poorly-secured cloud storage buckets for attack. We deployed hundreds of AWS S3 honeybuckets with different names and content…
Forward Pass: On the Security Implications of Email Forwarding Mechanism and Policy
Enze Liu, Gautam Akiwate, Mattijs Jonker +4
The critical role played by email has led to a range of extension protocols (e.g., SPF, DKIM, DMARC) designed to protect against the spoofing of email sender domains. These protoco…
Trackers Bounce Back: Measuring Evasion of Partitioned Storage in the Wild
Audrey Randall, Peter Snyder, Alisha Ukani +4
This work presents a systematic study of navigational tracking, the latest development in the cat-and-mouse game between browsers and online trackers. Navigational tracking allows…