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Twitter Page of UCL's Information Security Research Group & the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity Research
London, Europe
Joined November 2014
Honoured and humbled to share that we (#StopScamsUK) won the @theTECAs Outstanding Private/Third Sector Initiative Award 🏆 Thanks to all our members and the team ❤️ Onwards and upwards 🚀 #TacklingEconomicCrimeAwards #TECAs #OnlineFraud #Scams #Teamwork
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[1/n] Competitive opportunity for a 4-year PhD scholarship at @uclcs Deadline: Jan 5, 2026 @ 1pm We're seeking exceptional PhD applicants with expertise in AI and cybersecurity for a competitive opportunity to work with myself and @lcavallaro #PhD #Cybersecurity #AI @uclisec
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If you are going to ACM CCS in Taipei, and you have an interest in distributed systems or blockchains, you are invited to the Sui Academic event:
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About Join us at SuiHub Taipei for an evening of academic exchange and networking with the Mysten Labs team. The program will highlight the Sui Academic…
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‼️New paper alert 📣 Our latest paper on understanding SMS phishing infrastructure and strategies using public user reports (w/ @a_papasavva, @gsuareztangil, and @mjvasek) has been accepted @ACM_IMC_2025 📝📱@uclisec @uclcs @ucl @IMDEAInstitutes #cybercrime #smsscams #smishing
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Emiliano will be back at UCL for a talk on Monday 📍 169 Euston Road, GF Seminar Room 📅 September 22 🕑 2:00 PM Swing by if you’re in town and interested in synthetic data and privacy or just want to say hi. https://t.co/NH4uPbAkrK
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Looking forward to presenting and discussing our paper (w/ @mjvasek) in collaboration with #StopScamsUK on #CNPfraud @NspWorkshop in Germany over the next few days! @uclisec @uclcs @ucl @StopScamsUK #onlinefraud #smishing #smscsams @Paymentology #NSPW #remotefraud #cardfraud
📣📱💳 Our paper (w/@mjvasek) titled "Card-Not-Present Fraud resulting from Smishing Attacks: An Experimental Study" was accepted @NspWorkshop 2025! Looking forward to a great discussion. #CNPfraud #smscams #scams #smishing #onlinefraud #StopScamsUK #NSPW25 @uclisec @uclcs @ucl
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UCL Computer Science are hiring Section Managers to support the development and delivery of teaching, research, and strategy within their section. I’ll be leading the Foundational Computer Science section, where the InfoSec group is based. https://t.co/OQjqAAfHFz+
ucl.ac.uk
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Looking forward to presenting our paper on “Hi mum and dad” SMS scams next week @USENIXSecurity in Seattle! If you are attending #USENIX25, come to the Fraud, Malware and Spam track on 14th Aug! @uclisec @uclcs @ucl @IMDEA_Networks @StopScamsUK #onlinefraud #scams #cybercrime
🔔‼️ Our paper (w/ #StopScamsUK @EnricoMariconti @gsuareztangil @mjvasek) investigating “Hi Mum and Dad” SMS Scams has been accepted @USENIXSecurity’25! #USENIX25 #SMSScams #finanicialfraud #himumscams @uclisec @uclcs @usenix
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In case you weren’t able to attend the @ProjectHoneynet Annual Workshop 2025 in Prague last month, my talk and others are now live: https://t.co/qgLkWEqVhE
@StratosphereIPS @ucl @uclisec @uclcs #smishing #smscam #honeypot #Honeynet2025
Looking forward to showcasing our #smishing honeypot📱 for the first time @ProjectHoneynet Annual Workshop 2025 in Prague on 2nd June! @uclisec @uclcs @ucl @StratosphereIPS
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“$5 Wrench Attacks: When Cryptocurrency Crime Get Physical”, a post on Bentham’s Gaze by Marilyne Ordekian discussing when XKCD comics become reality – https://t.co/XNf5bFqz1e
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📣📱💳 Our paper (w/@mjvasek) titled "Card-Not-Present Fraud resulting from Smishing Attacks: An Experimental Study" was accepted @NspWorkshop 2025! Looking forward to a great discussion. #CNPfraud #smscams #scams #smishing #onlinefraud #StopScamsUK #NSPW25 @uclisec @uclcs @ucl
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On our new paper published at IEEE Security and Privacy @IEEESSP – “A Privacy Framework for Research Using Social Media Data”, a summary by Kyle Beadle
benthamsgaze.org
Social media data enables researchers to understand current events and human behavior with unprecedented ease and scale. Yet, researchers often violate user privacy when they access, process, and...
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I have an open PhD position at @uclisec on applying traffic-analysis resistance techniques to protect industrial control systems. Full funding is available for home-fee status students (deadline 15 April).
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🔔Research in news🚨 The results from our work on categorization of SMS scams from #IMC2024 and the upcoming paper on "Hi Mum and Dad" SMS scams @USENIXSecurity are referenced in today's @thetimes article by @yennahsmart
https://t.co/YY91enVeNV
#StopScamsUK @uclisec @uclcs @ucl
thetimes.com
Fraudsters are posing as vulnerable children to trick parents out of thousands of pounds — but the police and phone companies are playing catch-up
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I am advertising two PhD projects in the area of AI&cybersecurity as part of the new EPSRC CDT in Cyber-Physical Risk at UCL. These are fully-funded PhD studentships starting in September 2025. Information here: https://t.co/iGkvWtFXWo Closing date: 15 April 2025.
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New paper "AuthorMist: Evading AI Text Detectors with Reinforcement Learning" where we show how reinforcement learning can transform a 3B-parameter LM into a specialized system that consistently evades AI text detection! With @mercuryheavens 1/13
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The government is reviewing the legal presumption that electronic evidence is reliable. I was one of several experts to comment on this news.
computerweekly.com
Computer Weekly talks to people who suffered miscarriages of justice at the hands of flawed computer evidence as well as experts in law and IT, as the government commits to review the legal presump...
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