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most citedTopic-wise Exploration of the Telegram Group-verse

7 citations · 7 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CR2026

Learning to Link: Automatic Re-identification of BLE Devices Under MAC Address Randomisation

Reem Abdulrhman Alghamdi, Alberto Verna, Marco Mellia

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) employs MAC address randomisation -- via Resolvable Private Address (RPA) -- to mitigate long-term device tracking on public advertising channels. Existi…

cs.CR2026

SkillSecurer: Detecting and Patching Prompt-Injection Vulnerabilities in AI Agent Skills

Donato Mecca, Alberto Verna, Youness Bouchari +2

Agent skills extend AI agents with reusable instructions, scripts, and configuration, but are also open to new attacks to influence an agent's decisions and actions. To address the…

cs.CR2026

The Rise and Fall of Google's Privacy Sandbox

Rachid Youssef Grib, Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha +2

On October 17th, 2025, Google announced the retirement of most Privacy Sandbox APIs, concluding nearly five years of experimentation with its alternative to privacy-invasive data c…

cs.CR2026

Lost in Permissions: Exploring the Microsoft 365 App Ecosystem

Vincenzo Longo, Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha +1

The Microsoft 365 (M365) ecosystem hosts thousands of third-party applications that integrate with enterprise tenants via fine-grained OAuth permissions, potentially granting acces…

cs.CR2026

TrainShield: Targeted Awareness for Cybersecurity Training

Giovanni Pizzenti, Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha +3

In recent years, cybersecurity threats have increasingly exploited human behaviour rather than purely technical vulnerabilities, exposing the limits of traditional awareness progra…

cs.SI2025

Join the Chat: How Curiosity Sparks Participation in Telegram Groups

Giordano Paoletti, Jussara M. Almeida, Luca Vassio +2

This study delves into the mechanisms that spark user curiosity driving active engagement within public Telegram groups. By analyzing approximately 6 million messages from 29,196 u…

cs.SI2024★ 7 cited

Topic-wise Exploration of the Telegram Group-verse

Alessandro Perlo, Giordano Paoletti, Nikhil Jha +3

Although Telegram is currently one of the most popular instant messaging apps in the world, previous studies have mainly focused on analysing discussions on specific angles and top…