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08/09/2023
TUBERAIDER: Attributing Coordinated Hate Attacks on YouTube Videos to their Source Communities
Alas, coordinated hate attacks, or raids, are becoming increasingly comm...
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03/13/2023
Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women's Ideological Spaces
The Internet has been instrumental in connecting under-represented and v...
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12/12/2022
LAMBRETTA: Learning to Rank for Twitter Soft Moderation
To curb the problem of false information, social media platforms like Tw...
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11/25/2022
Non-Polar Opposites: Analyzing the Relationship Between Echo Chambers and Hostile Intergroup Interactions on Reddit
Previous research has documented the existence of both online echo chamb...
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09/07/2022
Why So Toxic? Measuring and Triggering Toxic Behavior in Open-Domain Chatbots
Chatbots are used in many applications, e.g., automated agents, smart ho...
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09/07/2022
Cerberus: Exploring Federated Prediction of Security Events
Modern defenses against cyberattacks increasingly rely on proactive appr...
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08/28/2022
Shedding Light on the Targeted Victim Profiles of Malicious Downloaders
Malware affects millions of users worldwide, impacting the daily lives o...
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06/29/2022
SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice
To counter online abuse and misinformation, social media platforms have ...
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02/17/2022
Feels Bad Man: Dissecting Automated Hateful Meme Detection Through the Lens of Facebook's Challenge
Internet memes have become a dominant method of communication; at the sa...
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12/01/2021
TROLLMAGNIFIER: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit
Growing evidence points to recurring influence campaigns on social media...
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11/03/2021
Slapping Cats, Bopping Heads, and Oreo Shakes: Understanding Indicators of Virality in TikTok Short Videos
Short videos have become one of the leading media used by younger genera...
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11/03/2021
Soros, Child Sacrifices, and 5G: Understanding the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on Web Communities
This paper presents a multi-platform computational pipeline geared to id...
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08/12/2021
An Early Look at the Gettr Social Network
This paper presents the first data-driven analysis of Gettr, a new socia...
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08/10/2021
A Large-scale Temporal Measurement of Android Malicious Apps: Persistence, Migration, and Lessons Learned
We study the temporal dynamics of potentially harmful apps (PHAs) on And...
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04/22/2021
"I'm a Professor, which isn't usually a dangerous job": Internet-Facilitated Harassment and its Impact on Researchers
While the Internet has dramatically increased the exposure that research...
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04/04/2021
Marked for Disruption: Tracing the Evolution of Malware Delivery Operations Targeted for Takedown
The malware and botnet phenomenon is among the most significant threats ...
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03/09/2021
ANDRUSPEX : Leveraging Graph Representation Learning to Predict Harmful App Installations on Mobile Devices
Android's security model severely limits the capabilities of anti-malwar...
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03/05/2021
A Multi-Platform Analysis of Political News Discussion and Sharing on Web Communities
The news ecosystem has become increasingly complex, encompassing a wide ...
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02/25/2021
Understanding Worldwide Private Information Collection on Android
Mobile phones enable the collection of a wealth of private information, ...
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01/21/2021
The Gospel According to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information
The QAnon conspiracy theory claims that a cabal of (literally) bloodthir...
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01/16/2021
Dissecting the Meme Magic: Understanding Indicators of Virality in Image Memes
Despite the increasingly important role played by image memes, we do not...
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01/11/2021
An Early Look at the Parler Online Social Network
Parler is as an "alternative" social network promoting itself as a servi...
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10/22/2020
"It is just a flu": Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations
YouTube has revolutionized the way people discover and consume videos, b...
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10/20/2020
Does Platform Migration Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels
When toxic online communities on mainstream platforms face moderation me...
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09/24/2020
Understanding the Use of Fauxtography on Social Media
Despite the influence that image-based communication has on online disco...
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09/10/2020
"Is it a Qoincidence?": A First Step Towards Understanding and Characterizing the QAnon Movement on Voat.co
Online fringe communities offer fertile grounds for users to seek and sh...
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09/08/2020
A First Look at Zoombombing
Online meeting tools like Zoom and Google Meet have become central to ou...
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05/16/2020
Measuring and Characterizing Hate Speech on News Websites
The Web has become the main source for news acquisition. At the same tim...
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04/08/2020
"Go eat a bat, Chang!": An Early Look on the Emergence of Sinophobic Behavior on Web Communities in the Face of COVID-19
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives in unprecede...
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01/22/2020
Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube
YouTube is by far the largest host of user-generated video content world...
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01/21/2020
From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: A Data-Driven Sketch of the Manosphere
Over the past few years, a number of "fringe" online communities have be...
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01/21/2020
Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board
This paper presents a dataset with over 3.3M threads and 134.5M posts fr...
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10/14/2019
Bridging Information Security and Environmental Criminology Research to Better Mitigate Cybercrime
Cybercrime is a complex phenomenon that spans both technical and human a...
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07/20/2019
Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media
Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena a...
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05/29/2019
Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud
Online romance scams are a prevalent form of mass-marketing fraud in the...
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05/29/2019
ATTACK2VEC: Leveraging Temporal Word Embeddings to Understand the Evolution of Cyberattacks
Despite the fact that cyberattacks are constantly growing in complexity,...
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05/24/2019
Tiresias: Predicting Security Events Through Deep Learning
With the increased complexity of modern computer attacks, there is a nee...
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03/16/2019
Pythia: a Framework for the Automated Analysis of Web Hosting Environments
A common approach when setting up a website is to utilize third party We...
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02/15/2019
Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web
Under increasing scrutiny, many web companies now offer bespoke mechanis...
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01/21/2019
Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Disturbing Content on YouTube
A considerable number of the most-subscribed YouTube channels feature co...
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01/17/2019
Characterizing the Use of Images by State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Twitter
Anecdotal evidence has emerged suggesting that state-sponsored organizat...
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11/07/2018
Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls
Over the past few years, extensive anecdotal evidence emerged that sugge...
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09/25/2018
LOBO -- Evaluation of Generalization Deficiencies in Twitter Bot Classifiers
Botnets in online social networks are increasingly often affecting the r...
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05/31/2018
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and possibly manipulate pub...
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05/21/2018
"You Know What to Do": Proactive Detection of YouTube Videos Targeted by Coordinated Hate Attacks
Over the years, the Web has shrunk the world, allowing individuals to sh...
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04/08/2018
Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Exploring Illegal Streaming Cyberlockers
Online video piracy (OVP) is a contentious topic, with strong proponents...
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03/27/2018
You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information
Metadata are associated to most of the information we produce in our dai...
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03/09/2018
A Family of Droids: Analyzing Behavioral Model based Android Malware Detection via Static and Dynamic Analysis
As smartphones play an increasingly central role in our everyday lives, ...
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02/14/2018
What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?
Over the past few years new "fringe" communities have been created and g...
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01/31/2018