3 papers
cs.CR2026
Omniscience for the Masses: New Threats in the Metaverse's Democratized World Creation
Andrea Mengascini, Ryan Aurelio, Jason Polakis +1
Metaverse platforms increasingly derive their success from user-generated virtual worlds: self-contained social and interactive environments, which can be created by any ordinary u…
cs.CR2024
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…
cs.CR2023
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…