Kurt Thomas
- Research Area(s)
- Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention
Co-Authors
Google Publications
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Cloak of Visibility: Detecting When Machines Browse a Different Web
Luca Invernizzi, Kurt Thomas, Alexandros Kapravelos, Oxana Comanescu, Jean-Michel Picod, Elie Bursztein
Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2016)
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Investigating Commercial Pay-Per-Install and the Distribution of Unwanted Software
Kurt Thomas, Juan Antonio Elices Crespo, Ryan Rasti, Jean-Michel Picod, Cait Phillips, Marc-André (MAD) Decoste, Chris Sharp, Fabio Tirelo, Ali Tofigh, Marc-Antoine Courteau, Lucas Ballard, Robert Shield, Nav Jagpal, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Panos Mavrommatis, Niels Provos, Elie Bursztein, Damon McCoy
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (2016)
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Remedying Web Hijacking: Notification Effectiveness and Webmaster Comprehension
Frank Li, Grant Ho, Eric Kuan, Yuan Niu, Lucas Ballard, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Vern Paxson
International World Wide Web Conference (2016)
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The Abuse Sharing Economy: Understanding the Limits of Threat Exchanges
Kurt Thomas, Rony Amira, Adi Ben-Yoash, Ori Folger, Amir Hardon, Ari Berger, Elie Bursztein, Michael Bailey
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (2016)
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Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications
Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Chris Grier, Grant Ho, Nav Jagpal, Alexandros Kapravelos, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Vern Paxson, Paul Pearce, Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2015)
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Framing Dependencies Introduced by Underground Commoditization
Kurt Thomas, Danny Huang, David Wang, Elie Bursztein, Chris Grier, Thomas J. Holt, Christopher Kruegel, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, Giovanni Vigna
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (2015)
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Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM ... An Empirical Analysis of Email Delivery Security
Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Ariana Mirian, James Kasten, Elie Bursztein, Nicolas Lidzborski, Kurt Thomas, Vijay Eranti, Michael Bailey, J. Alex Halderman
Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conferene (2015)
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Trends and Lessons from Three Years Fighting Malicious Extensions
Nav Jagpal, Eric Dingle, Jean-Philippe Gravel, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Kurt Thomas
USENIX Security Symposium (2015)
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Dialing Back Abuse on Phone Verified Accounts
Kurt Thomas, Dmytro Iatskiv, Elie Bursztein, Tadek Pietraszek, Chris Grier, Damon McCoy
Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2014)
Previous Publications
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Consequences of Connectivity: Characterizing Account Hijacking on Twitter
Kurt Thomas, Frank Li, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2014)
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Trafficking Fraudulent Accounts: The Role of the Underground Market in Twitter Spam and Abuse
Kurt Thomas, Damon McCoy, Chris Grier, Alek Kolcz, Vern Paxson
Proceedings of the 22nd Usenix Security Symposium (2013)
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Adapting Social Spam Infrastructure for Political Censorship
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson
Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (2012)
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Manufacturing Compromise: The Emergence of Exploit-as-a-Service
Chris Grier, Lucas Ballard, Juan Caballero, Neha Chachra, Christian J. Dietrich, Kirill Levchenko, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Andreas Pitsillidis, Niels Provos, M. Zubair Rafique, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Christian Rossow, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
Proceedings of 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2012)
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Design and Evaluation of a Real-Time URL Spam Filtering Service
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Justin Ma, Vern Paxson, Dawn Song
Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2011)
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Suspended Accounts in Retrospect: An Analysis of Twitter Spam
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson, Dawn Song
Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (2011)
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@spam: The underground on 140 characters or less
Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Michael Zhang
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2010)
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The Koobface Botnet and the Rise of Social Malware
Kurt Thomas, David M. Nicol
Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (2010)
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unFriendly: Multi-Party Privacy Risks in Social Networks
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, David M. Nicol
Proceedings of the 10th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (2010)







