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Ethereum is one of the most popular blockchain systems that supports more than half a million transactions every day and fosters miscellaneous decentralized applications with its Turing-complete smart contract machine. Whereas it remains…

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Like any other useful technology, cryptocurrencies are sometimes used for criminal activities. While transactions are recorded on the blockchain, there exists a need for a more rapid and scalable method to detect addresses associated with…

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Ethereum's rapid ecosystem expansion and transaction anonymity have triggered a surge in malicious activity. Detection mechanisms currently bifurcate into three technical strands: expert-defined features, graph embeddings, and sequential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yifan Jia , Ye Tian , Liguo Zhang , Yanbin Wang , Jianguo Sun , Liangliang Song

Ever-evolving transaction patterns have significantly hindered anomaly detection on emerging cryptocurrency blockchains due to the vast number of addresses and diverse anomalous behaviors. Recently, advanced Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Runang He , Tongya Zheng , Huiling Peng , Yuanyu Wan , Bingde Hu , Jiawei Chen , Canghong Jin , Mingli Song , Can Wang

With the rapid growth of blockchain, an increasing number of users have been attracted and many implementations have been refreshed in different fields. Especially in the cryptocurrency investment field, blockchain technology has shown…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shanqing Yu , Jie Jin , Yunyi Xie , Jie Shen , Qi Xuan

With the escalating prevalence of malicious activities exploiting vulnerabilities in blockchain systems, there is an urgent requirement for robust attack detection mechanisms. To address this challenge, this paper presents a novel…

The detection of malicious accounts on Ethereum - the preeminent DeFi platform - is critical for protecting digital assets and maintaining trust in decentralized finance. Recent advances highlight that temporal transaction evolution reveals…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ye Tian , Liangliang Song , Peng Qian , Yanbin Wang , Jianguo Sun , Yifan Jia

Blockchain technology has the characteristics of decentralization, traceability and tamper-proof, which creates a reliable decentralized trust mechanism, further accelerating the development of blockchain finance. However, the anonymization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiajun Zhou , Chenkai Hu , Jianlei Chi , Jiajing Wu , Meng Shen , Qi Xuan

This paper presents a dynamic, real-time approach to detecting anomalous blockchain transactions. The proposed tool, BlockGPT, generates tracing representations of blockchain activity and trains from scratch a large language model to act as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yu Gai , Liyi Zhou , Kaihua Qin , Dawn Song , Arthur Gervais

With the development of Web 3.0 which emphasizes decentralization, blockchain technology ushers in its revolution and also brings numerous challenges, particularly in the field of cryptocurrency. Recently, a large number of criminal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Chengxiang Jin , Jiajun Zhou , Jie Jin , Jiajing Wu , Qi Xuan

The rapid evolution of the Ethereum network necessitates sophisticated techniques to ensure its robustness against potential threats and to maintain transparency. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have pioneered anomaly detection in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Stefan Kambiz Behfar , Jon Crowcroft

As various forms of fraud proliferate on Ethereum, it is imperative to safeguard against these malicious activities to protect susceptible users from being victimized. While current studies solely rely on graph-based fraud detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Sihao Hu , Zhen Zhang , Bingqiao Luo , Shengliang Lu , Bingsheng He , Ling Liu

This paper explores the vulnerability of machine learning models to simple single-feature adversarial attacks in the context of Ethereum fraudulent transaction detection. Through comprehensive experimentation, we investigate the impact of…

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Bitcoin is by far the most popular crypto-currency solution enabling peer-to-peer payments. Despite some studies highlighting the network does not provide full anonymity, it is still being heavily used for a wide variety of dubious…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yining Hu , Suranga Seneviratne , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Kensuke Fukuda , Aruna Seneviratne

This paper explores the vulnerability of machine learning models, specifically Random Forest, Decision Tree, and K-Nearest Neighbors, to very simple single-feature adversarial attacks in the context of Ethereum fraudulent transaction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Ahod Alghureid , David Mohaisen

Phishing remains a pervasive cyber threat, as attackers craft deceptive emails to lure victims into revealing sensitive information. While Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular, deep learning, has become a key component in defending…

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Lateral movement is a crucial component of advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks in networks. Attackers exploit security vulnerabilities in internal networks or IoT devices, expanding their control after initial infiltration to steal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jiajun Zhou , Jiacheng Yao , Xuanze Chen , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

The Ponzi scheme, an old-fashioned fraud, is now popular on the Ethereum blockchain, causing considerable financial losses to many crypto investors. A few Ponzi detection methods have been proposed in the literature, most of which detect a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Phuong Duy Huynh , Son Hoang Dau , Xiaodong Li , Phuc Luong , Emanuele Viterbo

Motivated by the recent surge of criminal activities with cross-cryptocurrency trades, we introduce a new topological perspective to structural anomaly detection in dynamic multilayer networks. We postulate that anomalies in the underlying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Dorcas Ofori-Boateng , Ignacio Segovia Dominguez , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt G. Akcora , Yulia R. Gel

Ethereum is currently the second largest blockchain by market capitalization and a popular platform for cryptocurrencies. As it has grown, the high value present and the anonymity afforded by the technology have led Ethereum to become a…

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