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Phone scams remain a difficult problem to tackle due to the combination of protocol limitations, legal enforcement challenges and advances in technology enabling attackers to hide their identities and reduce costs. Scammers use social…

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Backdoor attacks embed a hidden functionality into deep neural networks, causing the network to display anomalous behavior when activated by a predetermined pattern in the input Trigger, while behaving well otherwise on public test data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Ankita Raj , Ambar Pal , Chetan Arora

Over these years, Correlation Filter-based Trackers (CFTs) have aroused increasing interests in the field of visual object tracking, and have achieved extremely compelling results in different competitions and benchmarks. In this paper, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Zhe Chen , Zhibin Hong , Dacheng Tao

We identify the slow liquidity drain (SLID) scam, an insidious and highly profitable threat to decentralized finance (DeFi), posing a large-scale, persistent, and growing risk to the ecosystem. Unlike traditional scams such as rug pulls or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Minh Trung Tran , Nasrin Sohrabi , Zahir Tari , Qin Wang , Minhui Xue , Xiaoyu Xia

Despite being beneficial for managing computing infrastructure automatically, Puppet manifests are susceptible to security weaknesses, e.g., hard-coded secrets and use of weak cryptography algorithms. Adequate mitigation of security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Akond Rahman , Chris Parnin

With the development of high technology, the scope of fraud is increasing, resulting in annual losses of billions of dollars worldwide. The preventive protection measures become obsolete and vulnerable over time, so effective detective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sergey Afanasiev , Anastasiya Smirnova , Diana Kotereva

Ethereum smart contracts are highly powerful, immutable, and able to retain massive amounts of tokens. However, smart contracts keep attracting attackers to benefit from smart contract flaws and Ethereum unexpected behavior. Thus,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Wejdene Haouari , Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid , Marios Fokaefs

Non-fungible token (NFT) is a tradable unit of data stored on the blockchain which can be associated with some digital asset as a certification of ownership. The past several years have witnessed the exponential growth of the NFT market. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Shuwei Li , Yucheng Jin , Pin-Lun Hsu , Ya-Sin Luo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made tremendous progress in the past ten years and have been applied in various critical applications. However, recent studies have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xinrui Liu , Yajie Wang , Yu-an Tan , Kefan Qiu , Yuanzhang Li

Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT) is a technique to track potential security vulnerabilities in software and hardware systems at run time. The last fifteen years have seen a lot of research work on DIFT, including both hardware-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Ali Jahanshahi

As LLMs are increasingly integrated into systems that browse, retrieve, summarize, and act on web content, webpages have become an untrusted input vector for downstream model behavior. This enables site owners, contributors, and adversaries…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Soheil Khodayari , Xuenan Zhang , Bhupendra Acharya , Giancarlo Pellegrino

Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We present automated techniques that enable experts to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Arunesh Mathur , Gunes Acar , Michael J. Friedman , Elena Lucherini , Jonathan Mayer , Marshini Chetty , Arvind Narayanan

Financial transaction fraud prevention faces challenges such as complex relationship structures, concealed behavioral patterns, and dynamically changing data distribution. Discrimination models relying solely on independent sample features…

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NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have experienced an explosive growth and their record-breaking prices have been witnessed. Typically, the assets that NFTs represent are stored off-chain with a pointer, e.g., multi-hop URLs, due to the costly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Ziwei Wang , Jiashi Gao , Xuetao Wei

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are digital assets stored on a blockchain representing real-world objects such as art or collectibles. An NFT collection comprises numerous tokens; each token can be transacted multiple times. It is a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-02-07 Wesley Joon-Wie Tann , Akhil Vuputuri , Ee-Chien Chang

Fault Tree (FT) is a standard failure modeling technique that has been extensively used to predict reliability, availability and safety of many complex engineering systems. In order to facilitate the formal analysis of FT based analyses, a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Waqar Ahmed , Osman Hasan

Graph embedding technics are studied with interest on public datasets, such as BlogCatalog, with the common practice of maximizing scoring on graph reconstruction, link prediction metrics etc. However, in the financial sector the important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Sida Zhou

Deep learning is becoming increasingly popular in real-life applications, especially in natural language processing (NLP). Users often choose training outsourcing or adopt third-party data and models due to data and computation resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xuan Sheng , Zhaoyang Han , Piji Li , Xiangmao Chang

In this work, we are focusing on a new and yet uncovered way for malicious apps to gain profit. They claim to be dating apps. However, their sole purpose is to lure users into purchasing premium/VIP services to start conversations with…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Yangyu Hu , Haoyu Wang , Yajin Zhou , Yao Guo , Li Li , Bingxuan Luo , Fangren Xu

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) markets are one of the fastest growing digital markets today, with the sales during the third quarter of 2021 exceeding $10 billions! Nevertheless, these emerging markets - similar to traditional emerging…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Konstantinos Pelechrinis , Xin Liu , Prashant Krishnamurthy , Amy Babay