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Mis- and disinformation are a substantial global threat to our security and safety. To cope with the scale of online misinformation, researchers have been working on automating fact-checking by retrieving and verifying against relevant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Sahar Abdelnabi , Mario Fritz

Disinformation refers to false information deliberately spread to influence the general public, and the negative impact of disinformation on society can be observed in numerous issues, such as political agendas and manipulating financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Dongqi Fu , Yikun Ban , Hanghang Tong , Ross Maciejewski , Jingrui He

The issue of dark patterns and deceptive designs (DPs) in everyday interfaces and interactions continues to grow. DPs are manipulative and malicious elements within user interfaces that deceive users into making unintended choices. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Weichen Joe Chang , Katie Seaborn , Andrew A. Adams

In recent years, disinformation including fake news, has became a global phenomenon due to its explosive growth, particularly on social media. The wide spread of disinformation and fake news can cause detrimental societal effects. Despite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Kai Shu , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee , Huan Liu

System operators responsible for protecting software applications remain hesitant to implement cyber deception technology, including methods that place traps to catch attackers, despite its proven benefits. Overcoming their concerns removes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mario Kahlhofer , Matteo Golinelli , Stefan Rass

Dependability is an umbrella concept that subsumes many key properties about a system, including reliability, maintainability, safety, availability, confidentiality, and integrity. Various dependability modeling techniques have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Waqar Ahmed , Osman Hasan , Sofiene Tahar

The last decade has seen a rise of Deep Learning with its applications ranging across diverse domains. But usually, the datasets used to drive these systems contain data which is highly confidential and sensitive. Though, Deep Learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Vishal Jignesh Gandhi , Sanchit Shokeen , Saloni Koshti

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate content that is as persuasive as human-written text and appear capable of selectively producing deceptive outputs. These capabilities raise concerns about potential misuse and unintended…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Cameron R. Jones , Benjamin K. Bergen

Cyber deception is one of the key approaches used to mislead attackers by hiding or providing inaccurate system information. There are two main factors limiting the real-world application of existing cyber deception approaches. The first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Dayong Ye , Tianqing Zhu , Shen Sheng , Wanlei Zhou

In the 21st Century information environment, adversarial actors use disinformation to manipulate public opinion. The distribution of false, misleading, or inaccurate information with the intent to deceive is an existential threat to the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Nadya Bliss , Elizabeth Bradley , Joshua Garland , Filippo Menczer , Scott W. Ruston , Kate Starbird , Chris Wiggins

Speech technology for communication, accessing information, and services has rapidly improved in quality. It is convenient and appealing because speech is the primary mode of communication for humans. Such technology, however, also presents…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Tom Bäckström

Deception is a common defense mechanism against adversaries with an information disadvantage. It can force such adversaries to select suboptimal policies for a defender's benefit. We consider a setting where an adversary tries to learn the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Filippos Fotiadis , Aris Kanellopoulos , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Ufuk Topcu

Under the aegis of computer vision and deep learning technology, a new emerging techniques has introduced that anyone can make highly realistic but fake videos, images even can manipulates the voices. This technology is widely known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Bahar Uddin Mahmud , Afsana Sharmin

Although deceptive design patterns are subject to growing regulatory oversight, enforcement races to keep up with the scale of the problem. One promising solution is automated detection tools, many of which are developed within academia. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Arianna Rossi , Simon Parkin

An increasingly common socio-technical problem is people being taken in by offers that sound ``too good to be true'', where persuasion and trust shape decision-making. This paper investigates how \abr{ai} can help detect these deceptive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Wichayaporn Wongkamjan , Yanze Wang , Feng Gu , Denis Peskoff , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Jonathan May , Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber

Cyber deception assists in increasing the attacker's budget in reconnaissance or any early phases of threat intrusions. In the past, numerous methods of cyber deception have been adopted, such as IP address randomization, the creation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Abhijeet Sahu , Shuva Paul , Richard Macwan

Deepfake technology has given rise to a spectrum of novel and compelling applications. Unfortunately, the widespread proliferation of high-fidelity fake videos has led to pervasive confusion and deception, shattering our faith that seeing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhongjie Ba , Qingyu Liu , Zhenguang Liu , Shuang Wu , Feng Lin , Li Lu , Kui Ren

In this paper, we study the probability of successful deception of an uncompressed biometric authentication system with side information at the adversary. It represents the scenario where the adversary may have correlated side information,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wei Kang , Daming Cao , Nan Liu

Text-based misinformation permeates online discourses, yet evidence of people's ability to discern truth from such deceptive textual content is scarce. We analyze a novel TV game show data where conversations in a high-stake environment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sanchaita Hazra , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Organizations have long used deception as a means to exert influence in pursuit of their agendas. In particular, information operations such as propaganda distribution, support of antigovernment protest, and revelation of politically and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Brian B. , William Fleshman , Kevin H. , Ryan Kaliszewski , Shawn R