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SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking
Yash Vekaria, Yohan Beugin, Shaoor Munir +11
Web tracking is a pervasive and opaque practice that enables personalized advertising, retargeting, and conversion tracking. Over time, it has evolved into a sophisticated and inva…
By Hook or by Crook: Exposing the Diverse Abuse Tactics of Technical Support Scammers
Bharat Srinivasan, Athanasios Kountouras, Najmeh Miramirkhani +4
Technical Support Scams (TSS), which combine online abuse with social engineering over the phone channel, have persisted despite several law enforcement actions. The tactics used b…
Hiding in Plain Sight: A Longitudinal Study of Combosquatting Abuse
Panagiotis Kintis, Najmeh Miramirkhani, Charles Lever +5
Domain squatting is a common adversarial practice where attackers register domain names that are purposefully similar to popular domains. In this work, we study a specific type of…
What's in a Name? Understanding Profile Name Reuse on Twitter
Enrico Mariconti, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Syed Sharique Ahmad +4
Users on Twitter are commonly identified by their profile names. These names are used when directly addressing users on Twitter, are part of their profile page URLs, and can become…
Dial One for Scam: A Large-Scale Analysis of Technical Support Scams
Najmeh Miramirkhani, Oleksii Starov, Nick Nikiforakis
In technical support scams, cybercriminals attempt to convince users that their machines are infected with malware and are in need of their technical support. In this process, the…
On the effectiveness of virtualization-based security
Francesco Gadaleta, Raoul Strackx, Nick Nikiforakis +2
Protecting commodity operating systems and applications against malware and targeted attacks has proven to be difficult. In recent years, virtualization has received attention from…