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Security issues are becoming increasingly significant with the rapid evolution of Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs). As NFTs are traded as digital assets, they have emerged as prime targets for cyber attackers. In the development of NFT smart…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yuanzheng Niu , Xiaoqi Li , Wenkai Li

Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have gained a solid foothold within the crypto community, and substantial amounts of money have been allocated to their trades. In this paper, we studied one of the most prominent marketplaces dedicated to NFT…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-28 MohammadAmin Fazli , Ali Owfi , Mohammad Reza Taesiri

Permission control vulnerabilities in Non-fungible token (NFT) contracts can result in significant financial losses, as attackers may exploit these weaknesses to gain unauthorized access or circumvent critical permission checks. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hailu Kuang , Xiaoqi Li , Wenkai Li , Zongwei Li

Financial fraud is an issue with far reaching consequences in the finance industry, government, corporate sectors, and for ordinary consumers. Increasing dependence on new technologies such as cloud and mobile computing in recent years has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-27 J. West , Maumita Bhattacharya , R. Islam

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 victims are asked to provide scammers with remote access to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Najmeh Miramirkhani , Oleksii Starov , Nick Nikiforakis

Online trading has attracted millions of people around the world. In March 2021, it was reported there were 18 million accounts from just one broker. Historically, manipulation in financial markets is considered to be fraudulently…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2021-07-30 Golnaz Shahtahmassebi , Lascelles Wright

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are digital assets recorded on the blockchain, providing cryptographic proof of ownership over digital or physical items. Although Solana has only begun to gain popularity in recent years, its NFT market has seen…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Dechao Kong , Xiaoqi Li , Wenkai Li

NFT (Non-fungible Token) has drastically increased in its size, accounting for over \$16.9B of total market capitalization. Despite the rapid growth of NFTs, this market has not been examined thoroughly from a financial perspective. In this…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-17 Na Hyeon Park , Hanna Kim , Chanhee Lee , Changhoon Yoon , Seunghyeon Lee , Youngjin jin , Seungwon Shin

The smart contract-based markets for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the Ethereum blockchain have seen tremendous growth in 2021, with trading volumes peaking at 3.5b in September 2021. This dramatic surge has led to industry observers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Victor von Wachter , Johannes Rude Jensen , Ferdinand Regner , Omri Ross

We investigate in this work a recently emerged type of scam ERC-20 token called Trapdoor, which has cost investors billions of US dollars on Uniswap, the largest decentralised exchange on Ethereum, from 2020 to 2023. In essence, Trapdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Phuong Duy Huynh , Thisal De Silva , Son Hoang Dau , Xiaodong Li , Iqbal Gondal , Emanuele Viterbo

Recent studies have revealed the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to various backdoor attacks, where the behavior of DNNs can be compromised by utilizing certain types of triggers or poisoning mechanisms. State-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Nazmul Karim , Abdullah Al Arafat , Umar Khalid , Zhishan Guo , Nazanin Rahnavard

While human factors in fraud have been studied by the HCI and security communities, most research has been directed to understanding either the victims' perspectives or prevention strategies, and not on fraudsters, their motivations and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Rajvardhan Oak , Zubair Shafiq

Tile-based programming frameworks are increasingly adopted to write high-performance GPU kernels in domains such as deep learning and scientific computing. While these frameworks enhance productivity and hardware utilization, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ravishka Rathnasuriya , Zihe Song , Nidhi Majoju , Aaryaa Moharir , Tingxi Li , Wei Yang , Tao Xie

With the rapid growth of the NFT market, the security of smart contracts has become crucial. However, existing AI-based detection models for NFT contract vulnerabilities remain limited due to their complexity, while traditional manual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xin Wang , Xiaoqi Li

Recent years have witnessed the availability of richer and richer datasets in a variety of domains, where signals often have a multi-modal nature, blending temporal, relational and semantic information. Within this context, several works…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Haaroon Yousaf , Naomi A. Arnold , Renaud Lambiotte , Timothy LaRock , Richard G. Clegg , Peijie Zhong , Alhamza Alnaimi , Ben Steer

The NFT ecosystem represents an interconnected, decentralized environment that encompasses the creation, distribution, and trading of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), where key actors, such as marketplaces, sellers, and buyers, utilize smart…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yujing Chen , Xuanming Liu , Zhiyuan Wan , Zuobin Wang , David Lo , Difan Xie , Xiaohu Yang

Donations to charity-based crowdfunding environments have been on the rise in the last few years. Unsurprisingly, deception and fraud in such platforms have also increased, but have not been thoroughly studied to understand what…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Beatrice Perez , Sara R. Machado , Jerone T. A. Andrews , Nicolas Kourtellis

Given a set of financial transactions (who buys from whom, when, and for how much), as well as prior information from buyers and sellers, how can we find fraudulent transactions? If we have labels for some transactions for known types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Robson L. F. Cordeiro , Meng-Chieh Lee , Christos Faloutsos

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are decentralized digital tokens to represent the unique ownership of items. Recently, NFTs have been gaining popularity and at the same time bringing up issues, such as scams, racism, and sexism.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yunpeng Xiao , Bufan Deng , Siqi Chen , Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou , Ray LC , Luyao Zhang , Xin Tong

Despite the fact that cryptocurrencies themselves have experienced an astonishing rate of adoption over the last decade, cryptocurrency fraud detection is a heavily under-researched problem area. Of all fraudulent activity regarding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Viswanath Chadalapaka , Kyle Chang , Gireesh Mahajan , Anuj Vasil