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As privacy features in Android operating system improve, privacy-invasive apps may gradually shift their focus to non-standard and covert channels for leaking private user/device information. Such leaks also remain largely undetected by…

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We present AuthREST, an open-source security testing tool targeting broken authentication, one of the most prevalent API security risks in the wild. AuthREST automatically tests web APIs for credential stuffing, password brute forcing, and…

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The rise of Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has enabled borderless access to financial services empowered by smart contracts and blockchain technology. However, the ecosystem's trustless, permissionless, and borderless nature presents…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hesam Sarkhosh , Uzma Maroof , Diogo Barradas

Like most modern software, secure messaging apps rely on third-party components to implement important app functionality. Although this practice reduces engineering costs, it also introduces the risk of inadvertent privacy breaches due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Nikita Samarin , Alex Sanchez , Trinity Chung , Akshay Dan Bhavish Juleemun , Conor Gilsenan , Nick Merrill , Joel Reardon , Serge Egelman

In recent years, there has been rapid growth in mobile devices such as smartphones, and a number of applications are developed specifically for the smartphone market. In particular, there are many applications that are ``free'' to the user,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Hiroki Kuzuno , Satoshi Tonami

The web3 applications have recently been growing, especially on the Ethereum platform, starting to become the target of scammers. The web3 scams, imitating the services provided by legitimate platforms, mimic regular activity to deceive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Wenkai Li , Zhijie Liu , Xiaoqi Li , Sen Nie

As mobile devices become ubiquitous, people around the world have enjoyed the convenience they have brought to our lives. At the same time, the increasing security threats that rise from using mobile devices not only have caught attention…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Jia Wang , Brent Lagesse

Fingerprint authentication is a popular security mechanism for smartphones and laptops. However, its adoption in web and cloud environments has been limited due to privacy concerns over storing and processing biometric data on servers. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hyunmin Choi , Simon Woo , Hyoungshick Kim

In today's technology-driven world, web services have opened up new opportunities for blind and visually impaired people to interact independently. Securing interactions with these services is crucial; however, currently deployed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda , Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad , Nitesh Saxena

Smartphones with the platforms of applications are gaining extensive attention and popularity. The enormous use of different applications has paved the way to numerous security threats. The threats are in the form of attacks such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Misbah Shafi , Rakesh Kumar Jha , Sanjeev Jain

AI agents integrated with Web3 offer autonomy and openness but raise security concerns as they interact with financial protocols and immutable smart contracts. This paper investigates the vulnerabilities of AI agents within blockchain-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Atharv Singh Patlan , Peiyao Sheng , S. Ashwin Hebbar , Prateek Mittal , Pramod Viswanath

Attacks targeting several millions of non-internet based application users are on the rise. These applications such as SMS and USSD typically do not benefit from existing multi-factor authentication methods due to the nature of their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Andrew Kinai , Fred Otieno , Nelson Bore , Komminist Weldemariam

Reentrancy, a notorious vulnerability in smart contracts, has led to millions of dollars in financial loss. However, current smart contract vulnerability detection tools suffer from a high false positive rate in identifying contracts with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Shuo Yang , Jiachi Chen , Mingyuan Huang , Zibin Zheng , Yuan Huang

Currently, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are becoming increasingly popular to facilitate data transfer in a variety of mobile applications. These APIs often process sensitive user information through their endpoints, which are…

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The rapid adoption of Web3 infrastructures has led to a growing number of security incidents affecting cryptocurrency exchanges, custody services and blockchain-based platforms. While existing research predominantly focuses on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Tarkan Yavas , Arslan Brömme

Recent studies have shown that a significant number of mobile applications, often handling sensitive data such as bank accounts and login credentials, suffers from SSL vulnerabilities. Most of the time, these vulnerabilities are due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-07-01 Mauro Conti , Nicola Dragoni , Sebastiano Gottardo

Web services are becoming business-critical components, often deployed with critical software bugs that can be maliciously explored. Web vulnerability scanners allow the detection of security vulnerabilities in web services by stressing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Osejobe Ehichoya , Chinwuba Christian Nnaemeka

This paper describes MessageGuard, a browser-based platform for research into usable content-based encryption. MessageGuard is designed to enable collaboration between security and usability researchers on long-standing research questions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Scott Ruoti , Jeff Andersen , Tyler Monson , Daniel Zappala , Kent Seamons

Package confusion attacks such as typosquatting threaten software supply chains. Attackers make packages with names that syntactically or semantically resemble legitimate ones, tricking engineers into installing malware. While prior work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wenxin Jiang , Berk Çakar , Mikola Lysenko , James C. Davis

Android banking applications have revolutionized financial management by allowing users to perform various financial activities through mobile devices. However, this convenience has attracted cybercriminals who exploit security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Wei Minn , Phong Phan , Vikas K. Malviya , Benjamin Adolphi , Yan Naing Tun , Henning Benzon Treichl , Albert Ching , Lwin Khin Shar , David Lo