2025
SoK: A Privacy Framework for Security Research Using Social Media Data.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2025
2024
Poster: A Comprehensive Categorization of SMS Scams.
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, 2024
A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams.
Proceedings of the APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, 2024
Investigating Wrench Attacks: Physical Attacks Targeting Cryptocurrency Users.
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, 2024
2023
Peer Surveillance in Online Communities.
CoRR, 2023
Gotta Assess 'Em All: A Risk Analysis of Criminal Offenses Facilitated through PokemonGO.
CoRR, 2023
Shaping Cryptocurrency Gatekeepers with a Regulatory "Trial and Error".
Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2023 International Workshops, 2023
Short Paper: DeFi Deception - Uncovering the Prevalence of Rugpulls in Cryptocurrency Projects.
Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2023
2022
Security of Decentralized Financial Technologies (Dagstuhl Seminar 22421).
Dagstuhl Reports, October, 2022
The Ethics of Going Deep: Challenges in Machine Learning for Sensitive Security Domains.
Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2022
Investigating the concentration of High Yield Investment Programs in the United Kingdom.
Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2022
"Invest in crypto!": An analysis of investment scam advertisements found in Bitcointalk.
Proceedings of the APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, 2022
2021
An examination of the cryptocurrency pump-and-dump ecosystem.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2021
Detecting Text Reuse in Cryptocurrency Whitepapers.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 2021
Analyzing Target-Based Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes.
Proceedings of the DeFi '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, 2021
2020
WACCO 2020: the 2nd Workshop on Attackers and Cybercrime Operations Co-held with IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2020.
Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, 2020
2018
Analyzing the Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Ecosystem.
Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2018
2016
Hacking Is Not Random: A Case-Control Study of Webserver-Compromise Risk.
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput., 2016
The Bitcoin Brain Drain: Examining the Use and Abuse of Bitcoin Brain Wallets.
Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2016
Measuring the Impact of Sharing Abuse Data with Web Hosting Providers.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security, 2016
2015
There's No Free Lunch, Even Using Bitcoin: Tracking the Popularity and Profits of Virtual Currency Scams.
Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2015
2014
Empirical Analysis of Denial-of-Service Attacks in the Bitcoin Ecosystem.
Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2014
Identifying Risk Factors for Webserver Compromise.
Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2014
Game-Theoretic Analysis of DDoS Attacks Against Bitcoin Mining Pools.
Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2014
2013
Empirical analysis of factors affecting malware URL detection.
Proceedings of the 2013 APWG eCrime Researchers Summit, 2013
2012
Do Malware Reports Expedite Cleanup? An Experimental Study.
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test, 2012