🎉 I am excited to share that starting Fall'25, I will be joining the @ULLafayette as an Assistant Professor!. Huge thanks to my postdoc advisor @thorstenholz and PhD advisor @pvadrevu, and to all the teachers and students who helped me reach this point.🙏.

If you are interested in impactful research at the intersection of security & the web, please apply here: 🔗 📢 RT and share with interested students is appreciated! #PhDPositions #CyberSecurity #InternetCybercrime #OnlineAttack.

I am recruiting multiple PhD students in the areas of internet cybercrime and web measurement in two research environments:. 1️⃣ University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA 🇺🇸.2️⃣ Max Planck Institute, Bochum, Germany 🇩🇪.

RT @DrSanchariDas: 📢 Gentle reminder! ⏰. Want to attend #CSCW2025 in stunning Bergen 🇳🇴?. Apply to be a Student Volunteer.Submit a T-Shirt….

RT @ACM_IMC_2025: 🚨 Deadline Alert!. 🌐 Internet Measurement community— IMC25 cycle 2 is almost here 🚀. 📝 Paper deadline: May 15.🗓️ Registra….

Your experience can help strengthen cybersecurity in education! 🔒📚 #CyberSecurity #AcademicSafety #Phishing #DataProtection.

We invite universities, colleges, and research institutions worldwide to participate in a short 10–15-minute survey to help identify key cybersecurity challenges and responses in academia.

📢 Calling All Academic Institutions! 🏫🔐. Have you faced cyber threats like phishing, data breaches, malware, or DDoS attacks? Your insights are crucial!. 🔗 Take the survey now:

RT @efren_lopezm: Are you a satellite mission operator? We need your expertise 🚀. By participating in our research study you will improve t….

RT @thorstenholz: Reading tipp for the day: "Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Computer Science Research" by Littman - https://t.c….

RT @pvadrevu: @AuroreFass and I are pleased to invite (self-)nominations for @USENIXSecurity '25 Artifact Evaluation Committee . This year'….

Congratulations Dr. Khodayari (@Soheil__K) on successfully depending PhD thesis. Checkout Soheil’s amazing work on web security/program analysis advised by Dr. Giancarlo Pellegrino (@tgianko) at CISPA.

RT @IEEESSP: Our call for 2025 workshops is now available. Proposals are due September 26, 2024. More info: . #iee….

Favorite line from the @NDSSSymposium rejection - "This work only investigated English scams. There may be differences in the techniques used in [X] scams in different countries and regions. Therefore, it would be worthwhile to analyze multiple languages and countries/regions.".

If you have been a victim of pig-butchering scams or know someone who has been a victim of such scams, your participation or sharing of our study information is appreciated. Feel free to reach out for additional information.

For more information check out our paper -

Finally, we recommend social media platforms, and brands to adopt measures to proactively fight these fraudsters' mechanics.

In collaboration with @PayPal, we further validated the fraud landscape and practical impact that these impersonating accounts perform which are found to be beyond the security and privacy implications.

Through analyzing the scamming accounts' engagement posts, we identified 10 scam categories that these fraudsters target the brand customers.

In this work, we demonstrate how impersonators target brand customers through username squatting, and showcase 349K squatting accounts targeting 2.8K popular brands from multiple social media platforms: @X, @instagram, @YouTube, and @telegram.