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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Bokai Cao , Mia Mao , Siim Viidu , Philip S. Yu

Due to the decentralized and public nature of the Blockchain ecosystem, the malicious activities on the Ethereum platform impose immeasurable losses for the users. Existing phishing scam detection methods mostly rely only on the analysis of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Jinhuan Wang , Pengtao Chen , Xinyao Xu , Jiajing Wu , Meng Shen , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Price manipulation attack is one of the notorious threats in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, which allows attackers to exchange tokens at an extensively deviated price from the market. Existing efforts usually rely on reactive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Bosi Zhang , Ningyu He , Xiaohui Hu , Kai Ma , Haoyu Wang

The rapid growth of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) boosts the Ethereum ecosystem. At the same time, attacks towards DeFi applications (apps) are increasing. However, to the best of our knowledge, existing smart contract vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Siwei Wu , Dabao Wang , Jianting He , Yajin Zhou , Lei Wu , Xingliang Yuan , Qinming He , Kui Ren

Front-running attacks, which benefit from advanced knowledge of pending transactions, have proliferated in the blockchain space since the emergence of decentralized finance. Front-running causes devastating losses to honest participants and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haoqian Zhang , Louis-Henri Merino , Ziyan Qu , Mahsa Bastankhah , Vero Estrada-Galinanes , Bryan Ford

The untraceability of transactions facilitated by Ethereum mixing services like Tornado Cash poses significant challenges to blockchain security and financial regulation. Existing methods for correlating mixing accounts suffer from limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Zheng Che , Taoyu Li , Meng Shen , Hanbiao Du , Liehuang Zhu

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

With online payment platforms being ubiquitous and important, fraud transaction detection has become the key for such platforms, to ensure user account safety and platform security. In this work, we present a novel method for detecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Longfei Li , Ziqi Liu , Chaochao Chen , Ya-Lin Zhang , Jun Zhou , Xiaolong Li

Blockchain technology and, in particular, blockchain-based transaction offers us information that has never been seen before in the financial world. In contrast to fiat currencies, transactions through virtual currencies like Bitcoin are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Jinhuan Wang , Pengtao Chen , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

Traditional security detection methods face three key challenges: inadequate data collection that misses critical security events, resource-intensive monitoring systems, and poor detection algorithms with high false positive rates. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Limin Wang , Lei Bu , Muzimiao Zhang , Shihong Cang , Kai Ye

Financial institutions and businesses face an ongoing challenge from fraudulent transactions, prompting the need for effective detection methods. Detecting credit card fraud is crucial for identifying and preventing unauthorized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Md. Alamin Talukder , Rakib Hossen , Md Ashraf Uddin , Mohammed Nasir Uddin , Uzzal Kumar Acharjee

Blockchain technology supports the generation and record of transactions, and maintains the fairness and openness of the cryptocurrency system. However, many fraudsters utilize smart contracts to create fraudulent Ponzi schemes for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Jie Jin , Jiajun Zhou , Chengxiang Jin , Shanqing Yu , Ziwan Zheng , Qi Xuan

With the rapid development of blockchain technology, transaction logs play a central role in various applications, including decentralized exchanges, wallets, cross-chain bridges, and other third-party services. However, these logs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yixuan Liu , Yuxin Dong , Ye Liu , Xiapu Luo , Yi Li

Financial fraud cases are on the rise even with the current technological advancements. Due to the lack of inter-organization synergy and because of privacy concerns, authentic financial transaction data is rarely available. On the other…

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yunfei Nie , Jiawei Wang , Ruobing Yan , Yuhan Wang , Zouxiaowei Ma , Yilun Wu

The advent of smart contracts has enabled the rapid rise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on the Ethereum blockchain, offering substantial rewards in financial innovation and inclusivity. This growth, however, is accompanied by significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shabnam Fazliani , Mohammad Mowlavi Sorond , Arsalan Masoudifard

In recent years, financial fraud detection systems have become very efficient at detecting fraud, which is a major threat faced by e-commerce platforms. Such systems often include machine learning-based algorithms aimed at detecting and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Chen Doytshman , Satoru Momiyama , Inderjeet Singh , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Reentrancy remains one of the most critical classes of vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts, yet widely used detection tools and datasets continue to reflect outdated patterns and obsolete Solidity versions. This paper adopts a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Dalila Ressi , Alvise Spanò , Matteo Rizzo , Lorenzo Benetollo , Sabina Rossi

In this paper, we present "Graph Feature Preprocessor", a software library for detecting typical money laundering patterns in financial transaction graphs in real time. These patterns are used to produce a rich set of transaction features…

With the widespread adoption of Ethereum, financial frauds such as Ponzi schemes have become increasingly rampant in the blockchain ecosystem, posing significant threats to the security of account assets. Existing Ethereum fraud detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Junhao Wu , Yixin Yang , Chengxiang Jin , Silu Mu , Xiaolei Qian , Jiajun Zhou , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan