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12 papers
Strategies and Vulnerabilities of Participants in Venezuelan Influence Operations
Ruben Recabarren, Bogdan Carbunar, Nestor Hernandez +1
Studies of online influence operations, coordinated efforts to disseminate and amplify disinformation, focus on forensic analysis of social networks or of publicly available datase…
Toward Uncensorable, Anonymous and Private Access Over Satoshi Blockchains
Ruben Recabarren, Bogdan Carbunar
Providing unrestricted access to sensitive content such as news and software is difficult in the presence of adaptive and resourceful surveillance and censoring adversaries. In thi…
Private and Atomic Exchange of Assets over Zero Knowledge Based Payment Ledger
Zhimin Gao, Lei Xu, Keshav Kasichainula +3
Bitcoin brings a new type of digital currency that does not rely on a central system to maintain transactions. By benefiting from the concept of decentralized ledger, users who do…
Tithonus: A Bitcoin Based Censorship Resilient System
Ruben Recabarren, Bogdan Carbunar
Providing reliable and surreptitious communications is difficult in the presence of adaptive and resourceful state level censors. In this paper we introduce Tithonus, a framework t…
Search Rank Fraud De-Anonymization in Online Systems
Mizanur Rahman, Nestor Hernandez, Bogdan Carbunar +1
We introduce the fraud de-anonymization problem, that goes beyond fraud detection, to unmask the human masterminds responsible for posting search rank fraud in online systems. We c…
AbuSniff: Automatic Detection and Defenses Against Abusive Facebook Friends
Sajedul Talukder, Bogdan Carbunar
Adversaries leverage social network friend relationships to collect sensitive data from users and target them with abuse that includes fake news, cyberbullying, malware, and propag…