On the suitability of process mining for enhancing transparency of blockchain applications

R Hobeck, C Klinkmüller, HMND Bandara… - Business & Information …, 2024 - Springer
Blockchain technology is known for its transparency properties due to its publicly available,
immutable data. Yet, as data availability does not inherently ensure transparency, further …

Towards understanding and characterizing the arbitrage bot scam in the wild

K Li, S Guan, D Lee - Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of an emerging cryptocurrency scam
named" arbitrage bot" disseminated on online social networks. The scam revolves around …

Give and take: An end-to-end investigation of giveaway scam conversion rates

E Liu, G Kappos, E Mugnier, L Invernizzi… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Internet's combination of low communication cost, global reach, and functional
anonymity has allowed fraudulent scam volumes to reach new heights. Designing effective …

Time-aware metapath feature augmentation for ponzi detection in ethereum

C Jin, J Zhou, J Jin, J Wu, Q Xuan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of Web 3.0 which emphasizes decentralization, blockchain
technology ushers in its revolution and also brings numerous challenges, particularly in the …

Exploiting Unfair Advantages: Investigating Opportunistic Trading in the NFT Market

P Bose, D Das, F Gritti, N Ruaro, C Kruegel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
As cryptocurrency evolved, new financial instruments, such as lending and borrowing
protocols, currency exchanges, fungible and non-fungible tokens (NFT), staking and mining …

Understanding the Cryptocurrency Free Giveaway Scam Disseminated on Twitter Lists

K Li, D Lee, S Guan - 2023 IEEE International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an end-to-end analysis of the cryptocurrency free giveaway scam
disseminated in a new distribution channel, Twitter lists. To detect scams disseminated in …

Characterizing Ethereum Address Poisoning Attack

S Guan, K Li - Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of the address poisoning attack surged
on the Ethereum blockchain. This phishing attack typically exploits the address shortening …

Towards understanding and characterizing the arbitrage bot scam in the wild

K Li, S Guan, D Lee - ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of an emerging cryptocurrency scam
named" arbitrage bot" disseminated on online social networks. The scam revolves around …

DeFiTrust: A transformer-based framework for scam DeFi token detection using event logs and sentiment analysis

M Gunathilaka, S Wickramanayake… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Decentralized finance (DeFi) token scams are rising, leading to significant losses for
investors and users. Hence, it is vital to identify malicious DeFi tokens accurately and early …

Understanding and Characterizing Cryptocurrency Free Giveaway and Arbitrage Bot Scams In the Wild

K Li, D Lee, S Guan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10634, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a large-scale analysis of two prevalent cryptocurrency scams
disseminated through Twitter and YouTube. The first scam involves free giveaway schemes …