Publications (Peer-reviewed conferences)

1. The Imitation Game: Exploring Brand Impersonation Attacks on Social Media Platforms
   Bhupendra Acharya, Dario Lazzaro, Efren Lopez Morales, Adam Oest, Muhammad Saad,
   Antonio Emanuele Cinà, Lea Schönherr, Thorsten Holz
   Proceedings of The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
   Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2024.
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2. C-FRAME: Characterizing and Measuring in-the-wild CAPTCHA Attacks
   Hoang Dai Nguyen, Karthika Subramani, Bhupendra Acharya, Roberto Perdisci, Phani Vadrevu
   Proceedings of The 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)
   San Francisco, CA, May 2024.
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3. Conning the Crypto Conman: End-to-End Analysis of Cryptocurrency-based Technical Support Scams
   Bhupendra Acharya, Muhammad Saad, Antonio Emanuele Cinà, Lea Schönherr, Hoang Dai Nguyen, Adam Oest, Phani Vadrevu, Thorsten Holz
   Proceedings of The 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)
   San Francisco, CA, May 2024.
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4. A Human in Every APE: Delineating and Evaluating the Human Analysis Systems of Anti-Phishing Entities
   Bhupendra Acharya, Phani Vadrevu
   Proceedings of The 19th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)
   Cagliari, Italy, Jun 29-Jul 1, 2022
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5. PhishPrint:Evading Phishing Detection Crawlers by Prior Profiling
   Bhupendra Acharya, Phani Vadrevu
   Proceedings of The 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
   Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug 11-13, 2021
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