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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…
RacketStore: Measurements of ASO Deception in Google Play via Mobile and App Usage
Nestor Hernandez, Ruben Recabarren, Bogdan Carbunar +1
Online app search optimization (ASO) platforms that provide bulk installs and fake reviews for paying app developers in order to fraudulently boost their search rank in app stores,…
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…
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…
Stateless Puzzles for Real Time Online Fraud Preemption
Mizanur Rahman, Ruben Recabarren, Bogdan Carbunar +1
The profitability of fraud in online systems such as app markets and social networks marks the failure of existing defense mechanisms. In this paper, we propose FraudSys, a real-ti…
Hardening Stratum, the Bitcoin Pool Mining Protocol
Ruben Recabarren, Bogdan Carbunar
Stratum, the de-facto mining communication protocol used by blockchain based cryptocurrency systems, enables miners to reliably and efficiently fetch jobs from mining pool servers.…