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This research aims to design an educational mobile game for home computer users to prevent from phishing attacks. Phishing is an online identity theft which aims to steal sensitive information such as username, password and online banking…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage , Melissa Cole

Data poisoning is a type of adversarial attack on training data where an attacker manipulates a fraction of data to degrade the performance of machine learning model. Therefore, applications that rely on external data-sources for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Sanjay Seetharaman , Shubham Malaviya , Rosni KV , Manish Shukla , Sachin Lodha

Large-scale online service platforms face severe challenges from organized platform abuse: multiple forms such as credit card fraud and promotion abuse continually emerge, characterized by large numbers of involved accounts, rapid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Meng He , Jia Long Loh

Most work on automated deception detection (ADD) in video has two restrictions: (i) it focuses on a video of one person, and (ii) it focuses on a single act of deception in a one or two minute video. In this paper, we propose a new ADD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Chongyang Bai , Maksim Bolonkin , Judee Burgoon , Chao Chen , Norah Dunbar , Bharat Singh , V. S. Subrahmanian , Zhe Wu

Over the years, online scams have grown dramatically, with nearly 50% of global consumers encountering scam attempts each week. These scams cause not only significant financial losses to individuals and businesses, but also lasting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shang Ma , Tianyi Ma , Jiahao Liu , Wei Song , Zhenkai Liang , Xusheng Xiao , Yanfang Ye

Online e-commerce scams, ranging from shopping scams to pet scams, globally cause millions of dollars in financial damage every year. In response, the security community has developed highly accurate detection systems able to determine if a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Pujan Paudel , Gianluca Stringhini

The actions of intelligent agents, such as chatbots, recommender systems, and virtual assistants are typically not fully transparent to the user. Consequently, using such an agent involves the user exposing themselves to the risk that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 The Anh Han , Cedric Perret , Simon T. Powers

Recommender system is an important component of many web services to help users locate items that match their interests. Several studies showed that recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which an attacker injects fake…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Minghong Fang , Guolei Yang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jia Liu

AI-enhanced scams now employ deepfake technology to produce convincing audio and visual impersonations of trusted family members, often grandchildren, in real time. These attacks fabricate urgent scenarios, such as legal or medical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Karina LaRubbio , Alyssa Lanter , Seihyun Lee , Mahima Ramesh , Diana Freed

Fraud is a prevalent offence that extends beyond financial loss, causing psychological and physical harm to victims. The advancements in online communication technologies alowed for online fraud to thrive in this vast network, with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Antonis Papasavva , Shane Johnson , Ed Lowther , Samantha Lundrigan , Enrico Mariconti , Anna Markovska , Nilufer Tuptuk

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ian Wood , Michal Kepkowski , Leron Zinatullin , Travis Darnley , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as interactive agents, open-ended human-AI interactions can involve deceptive behaviors with serious real-world consequences, yet existing evaluations remain largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yichen Wu , Qianqian Gao , Xudong Pan , Geng Hong , Min Yang

In mobile applications, Pop-up window (PoW) plays a crucial role in improving user experience, guiding user actions, and delivering key information. Unfortunately, the excessive use of PoWs severely degrades the user experience. These PoWs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Dongpeng Wu , Yuhong Nan , Shaojiang Wang , Jiawei Wang , Luwa Li , Xueqiang Wang

Despite living in the era of the internet, phone-based scams remain one of the most prevalent forms of scams. These scams aim to exploit victims for financial gain, causing both monetary losses and psychological distress. While governments,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zitong Shen , Sineng Yan , Youqian Zhang , Xiapu Luo , Grace Ngai , Eugene Yujun Fu

This study explores the prevalence of dark patterns in mobile games that exploit players through temporal, monetary, social, and psychological means. Recognizing the ethical concerns and potential harm surrounding these manipulative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Sam Niknejad , Thomas Mildner , Nima Zargham , Susanne Putze , Rainer Malaka

Recently, privacy issues in web services that rely on users' personal data have raised great attention. Unlike existing privacy-preserving technologies such as federated learning and differential privacy, we explore another way to mitigate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Ziqian Chen , Fei Sun , Yifan Tang , Haokun Chen , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding

Fraudulent activities on digital banking services are becoming more intricate by the day, challenging existing defenses. While older rule driven methods struggle to keep pace, even precision focused algorithms fall short when new scams are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Karthikeyan V. R. , Premnath S. , Kavinraaj S. , J. Sangeetha

The proliferation of digital payment platforms has transformed commerce, offering unmatched convenience and accessibility globally. However, this growth has also attracted malicious actors, leading to a corresponding increase in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Nitish Jaipuria , Lorenzo Gatto , Zijun Kan , Shankey Poddar , Bill Cheung , Diksha Bansal , Ramanan Balakrishnan , Aviral Suri , Jose Estevez

India's recent health surveys have highlighted a worrying trend of incomplete child immunization rates across several district clusters in India. Conventional training methods for community healthcare workers (CHWs) in India are inadequate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Arka Majhi , Aparajita Mondal , Satish B. Agnihotri

We introduce a new simulation platform called Insight, created to design and simulate cyber-attacks against large arbitrary target scenarios. Insight has surprisingly low hardware and configuration requirements, while making the simulation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-06-11 Ariel Futoransky , Fernando Miranda , Jose Orlicki , Carlos Sarraute