2 papers
cs.CR2026
Context-Aware Spear Phishing: Generative AI-Enabled Attacks Against Individuals via Public Social Media Data
Elham Pourabbas Vafa, Sayak Saha Roy, Shirin Nilizadeh
We demonstrate how publicly available social-media data and generative AI (GenAI) can be misused to automate and scale highly personalized, context-aware spear-phishing campaigns.…
cs.CR2025
DarkGram: A Large-Scale Analysis of Cybercriminal Activity Channels on Telegram
Sayak Saha Roy, Elham Pourabbas Vafa, Kobra Khanmohammadi +1
We present the first large-scale analysis of 339 cybercriminal activity channels (CACs). Followed by over 23.8 million users, these channels share a wide array of malicious and une…