Gianluca Stringhini

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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Departments of Computer Science and Security and Crime Science at University College London (UCL).

"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...
04/22/2021 ∙ by Periwinkle Doerfler, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Marked for Disruption: Tracing the Evolution of Malware Delivery Operations Targeted for Takedown

The malware and botnet phenomenon is among the most significant threats ...
04/04/2021 ∙ by Colin C. Ife, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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ANDRUSPEX : Leveraging Graph Representation Learning to Predict Harmful App Installations on Mobile Devices

Android's security model severely limits the capabilities of anti-malwar...
03/09/2021 ∙ by Yun Shen, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A Multi-Platform Analysis of Political News Discussion and Sharing on Web Communities

The news ecosystem has become increasingly complex, encompassing a wide ...
03/05/2021 ∙ by Yuping Wang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Understanding Worldwide Private Information Collection on Android

Mobile phones enable the collection of a wealth of private information, ...
02/25/2021 ∙ by Yun Shen, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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...
01/21/2021 ∙ by Max Aliapoulios, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Dissecting the Meme Magic: Understanding Indicators of Virality in Image Memes

Despite the increasingly important role played by image memes, we do not...
01/16/2021 ∙ by Chen Ling, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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An Early Look at the Parler Online Social Network

Parler is as an "alternative" social network promoting itself as a servi...
01/11/2021 ∙ by Max Aliapoulios, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"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...
10/22/2020 ∙ by Kostantinos Papadamou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Does Platform Migration Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels

When toxic online communities on mainstream platforms face moderation me...
10/20/2020 ∙ by Manoel Horta Ribeiro, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Understanding the Use of Fauxtography on Social Media

Despite the influence that image-based communication has on online disco...
09/24/2020 ∙ by Yuping Wang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"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...
09/10/2020 ∙ by Antonis Papasavva, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A First Look at Zoombombing

Online meeting tools like Zoom and Google Meet have become central to ou...
09/08/2020 ∙ by Chen Ling, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Measuring and Characterizing Hate Speech on News Websites

The Web has become the main source for news acquisition. At the same tim...
05/16/2020 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"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...
04/08/2020 ∙ by Leonard Schild, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube

YouTube is by far the largest host of user-generated video content world...
01/22/2020 ∙ by Kostantinos Papadamou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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...
01/21/2020 ∙ by Manoel Horta Ribeiro, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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...
01/21/2020 ∙ by Antonis Papasavva, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Bridging Information Security and Environmental Criminology Research to Better Mitigate Cybercrime

Cybercrime is a complex phenomenon that spans both technical and human a...
10/14/2019 ∙ by Colin C. Ife, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media

Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena a...
07/20/2019 ∙ by Despoina Chatzakou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud

Online romance scams are a prevalent form of mass-marketing fraud in the...
05/29/2019 ∙ by Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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ATTACK2VEC: Leveraging Temporal Word Embeddings to Understand the Evolution of Cyberattacks

Despite the fact that cyberattacks are constantly growing in complexity,...
05/29/2019 ∙ by Yun Shen, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Tiresias: Predicting Security Events Through Deep Learning

With the increased complexity of modern computer attacks, there is a nee...
05/24/2019 ∙ by Yun Shen, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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...
03/16/2019 ∙ by Srdjan Matic, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web

Under increasing scrutiny, many web companies now offer bespoke mechanis...
02/15/2019 ∙ by Damilola Ibosiola, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Disturbing Content on YouTube

A considerable number of the most-subscribed YouTube channels feature co...
01/21/2019 ∙ by Kostantinos Papadamou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Characterizing the Use of Images by State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Twitter

Anecdotal evidence has emerged suggesting that state-sponsored organizat...
01/17/2019 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls

Over the past few years, extensive anecdotal evidence emerged that sugge...
11/07/2018 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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LOBO -- Evaluation of Generalization Deficiencies in Twitter Bot Classifiers

Botnets in online social networks are increasingly often affecting the r...
09/25/2018 ∙ by Juan Echeverría, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities

Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and possibly manipulate pub...
05/31/2018 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"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...
05/21/2018 ∙ by Enrico Mariconti, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Exploring Illegal Streaming Cyberlockers

Online video piracy (OVP) is a contentious topic, with strong proponents...
04/08/2018 ∙ by Damilola Ibosiola, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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...
03/27/2018 ∙ by Beatrice Perez, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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, ...
03/09/2018 ∙ by Lucky Onwuzurike, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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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...
02/14/2018 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Understanding Web Archiving Services and Their (Mis)Use on Social Media

Either by ensuring the continuing availability of information, or by del...
01/31/2018 ∙ by Savvas Zannettou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Eight Years of Rider Measurement in the Android Malware Ecosystem: Evolution and Lessons Learned

Despite the growing threat posed by Android malware, the research commun...
01/24/2018 ∙ by Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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MaMaDroid: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models (Extended Version)

As Android becomes increasingly popular, so does malware targeting it, t...
11/20/2017 ∙ by Lucky Onwuzurike, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Email Babel: Does Language Affect Criminal Activity in Compromised Webmail Accounts?

We set out to understand the effects of differing language on the abilit...
04/25/2017 ∙ by Emeric Bernard-Jones, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Measuring #GamerGate: A Tale of Hate, Sexism, and Bullying

Over the past few years, online aggression and abusive behaviors have oc...
02/24/2017 ∙ by Despoina Chatzakou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Kissing Cuisines: Exploring Worldwide Culinary Habits on the Web

Food and nutrition occupy an increasingly prevalent space on the web, an...
10/26/2016 ∙ by Sina Sajadmanesh, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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