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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	A*	`conf`	"It didn't feel right but I needed a job so desperately": Understanding People's Emotions and Help Needs During Scams. CHI Jake Chanenson, Tara Matthews, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Jessica McClearn, Sarah Meiklejohn, Abhishek Roy, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Amelia Hassoun
2026	J	`jnl`	DROIDCCT: Cryptographic Compliance Test via Trillion-Scale Measurement. CoRR Daniel Moghimi, Alexandru-Cosmin Mihai, Borbala Benko, Catherine Vlasov, Elie Bursztein, Kurt Thomas, Laszlo Siroki, Pedro Barbosa, Remi Audebert
2026	A*	`conf`	Governance of AI-Generated Content: A Case Study on Social Media Platforms. CHI Lan Gao, Abani Ahmed, Oscar Chen, Margaux Reyl, Zayna Cheema, Nick Feamster, Chenhao Tan, Kurt Thomas, Marshini Chetty
2026	J	`jnl`	Governance of AI-Generated Content: A Case Study on Social Media Platforms. CoRR Lan Gao, Abani Ahmed, Oscar Chen, Margaux Reyl, Zayna Cheema, Nick Feamster, Chenhao Tan, Kurt Thomas, Marshini Chetty
2026	A*	`conf`	How Generative AI Empowers Attackers and Defenders Across the Trust & Safety Landscape. CHI Patrick Gage Kelley, Steven Rousso-Schindler, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Allison Woodruff
2026	J	`jnl`	How Generative AI Empowers Attackers and Defenders Across the Trust & Safety Landscape. CoRR Patrick Gage Kelley, Steven Rousso-Schindler, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Allison Woodruff
2026	J	`jnl`	Understanding Help Seeking for Digital Privacy, Safety, and Security. CoRR Kurt Thomas, Sai Teja Peddinti, Sarah Meiklejohn, Tara Matthews, Amelia Hassoun, Animesh Srivastava, Jessica McClearn, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Nina Taft
2026	A*	`conf`	Who Is At Risk? Examining the Prevalence of Digital-Safety Attacks and Contextual Risk Factors in the United States. CHI Sharon Heung, Claire Florence Weizenegger, Mo Houtti, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Ashley Marie Walker
2025	A*	`conf`	"Perfect is the Enemy of Good": The CISO's Role in Enterprise Security as a Business Enabler. CHI Kimberly Ruth, Veronica A. Rivera, Gautam Akiwate, Aurore Fass, Patrick Gage Kelley, Kurt Thomas, Zakir Durumeric
2025	A	`conf`	"We are not Future-ready": Understanding AI Privacy Risks and Existing Mitigation Strategies from the Perspective of AI Developers in Europe. SOUPS Alexandra Klymenko, Stephen Meisenbacher, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sai Teja Peddinti, Kurt Thomas, Florian Matthes
2025	J	`jnl`	"We are not Future-ready": Understanding AI Privacy Risks and Existing Mitigation Strategies from the Perspective of AI Developers in Europe. CoRR Alexandra Klymenko, Stephen Meisenbacher, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sai Teja Peddinti, Kurt Thomas, Florian Matthes
2025	A	`conf`	DROIDCCT: Cryptographic Compliance Test via Trillion-Scale Measurement. ACSAC Daniel Moghimi, Alexandru-Cosmin Mihai, Borbala Benko, Catherine Vlasov, Elie Bursztein, Kurt Thomas, Laszlo Siroki, Pedro Barbosa, Remi Audebert
2025	A*	`conf`	Evaluating the Robustness of a Production Malware Detection System to Transferable Adversarial Attacks. CCS Milad Nasr, Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Ange Albertini, Loua Farah, Alex Petit-Bianco, Andreas Terzis, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Nicholas Carlini
2025	J	`jnl`	Evaluating the Robustness of a Production Malware Detection System to Transferable Adversarial Attacks. CoRR Milad Nasr, Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Ange Albertini, Loua Farah, Alex Petit-Bianco, Andreas Terzis, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Nicholas Carlini
2025	J	`jnl`	Help-seeking and Coping Strategies for Technology-facilitated Abuse Experienced by Youth. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. Diana Freed, Sunny Consolvo, Dan Cosley, Patrick Gage Kelley, Ender Ricart, Kurt Thomas, Natalie N. Bazarova
2025	A	`conf`	Integrating Large Language Models into Security Incident Response. SOUPS Diana Kramer, Lambert Rosique, Ajay Narotam, Elie Bursztein, Patrick Gage Kelley, Kurt Thomas, Allison Woodruff
2025	A*	`conf`	MAGIKA: AI-Powered Content-Type Detection. ICSE Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Loua Farah, Kurt Thomas, Marina Zhang, Ange Albertini, Francois Galilee, Giancarlo Metitieri, Julien Cretin, Alex Petit-Bianco, David Tao, Elie Bursztein
2025	A*	`conf`	Supporting Human Raters with the Detection of Harmful Content Using Large Language Models. SP Kurt Thomas, Patrick Gage Kelley, David Tao, Sarah Meiklejohn, Owen Vallis, Shunwen Tan, Blaz Bratanic, Felipe Tiengo Ferreira, Vijay Kumar Eranti, Elie Bursztein
2025	J	`jnl`	Supporting the Digital Safety of At-Risk Users: Lessons Learned from 9+ Years of Research and Training. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. Tara Matthews, Elie Bursztein, Patrick Gage Kelley, Lea Kissner, Andreas Kramm, Andrew Oplinger, Andreas Schou, Manya Sleeper, Stephan Somogyi, Dalila Szostak, Kurt Thomas, Anna Turner, Jill Palzkill Woelfer, Lawrence L. You, Izzie Zahorian, Sunny Consolvo
2024	A	`conf`	Give and Take: An End-To-End Investigation of Giveaway Scam Conversion Rates. IMC Enze Liu, George Kappos, Eric Mugnier, Luca Invernizzi, Stefan Savage, David Tao, Kurt Thomas, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Sarah Meiklejohn
2024	J	`jnl`	Give and Take: An End-To-End Investigation of Giveaway Scam Conversion Rates. CoRR Enze Liu, George Kappos, Eric Mugnier, Luca Invernizzi, Stefan Savage, David Tao, Kurt Thomas, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Sarah Meiklejohn
2024	J	`jnl`	Magika: AI-Powered Content-Type Detection. CoRR Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Loua Farah, Kurt Thomas, Marina Zhang, Ange Albertini, Francois Galilee, Giancarlo Metitieri, Julien Cretin, Alex Petit-Bianco, David Tao, Elie Bursztein
2024	A*	`conf`	Poisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets is Practical. SP Nicholas Carlini, Matthew Jagielski, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Daniel Paleka, Will Pearce, Hyrum S. Anderson, Andreas Terzis, Kurt Thomas, Florian Tramèr
2024	J	`jnl`	Privacy Risks of General-Purpose AI Systems: A Foundation for Investigating Practitioner Perspectives. CoRR Stephen Meisenbacher, Alexandra Klymenko, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sai Teja Peddinti, Kurt Thomas, Florian Matthes
2024	J	`jnl`	Supporting Human Raters with the Detection of Harmful Content using Large Language Models. CoRR Kurt Thomas, Patrick Gage Kelley, David Tao, Sarah Meiklejohn, Owen Vallis, Shunwen Tan, Blaz Bratanic, Felipe Tiengo Ferreira, Vijay Kumar Eranti, Elie Bursztein
2024	A*	`conf`	Understanding Help-Seeking and Help-Giving on Social Media for Image-Based Sexual Abuse. USENIX Security Symposium Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Tara Matthews, Sarah Meiklejohn, Franziska Roesner, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Rebecca Umbach
2024	J	`jnl`	Understanding Help-Seeking and Help-Giving on Social Media for Image-Based Sexual Abuse. CoRR Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Tara Matthews, Sarah Meiklejohn, Franziska Roesner, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Rebecca Umbach
2023	A*	`conf`	"Millions of people are watching you": Understanding the Digital-Safety Needs and Practices of Creators. USENIX Security Symposium Patrawat Samermit, Anna Turner, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Vanessia Wu, Sunny Consolvo, Kurt Thomas
2023	A	`conf`	"There will be less privacy, of course": How and why people in 10 countries expect AI will affect privacy in the future. SOUPS Patrick Gage Kelley, Celestina Cornejo, Lisa Hayes, Ellie Shuo Jin, Aaron Sedley, Kurt Thomas, Yongwei Yang, Allison Woodruff
2023	A*	`conf`	"There's so much responsibility on users right now: " Expert Advice for Staying Safer From Hate and Harassment. CHI Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, Kurt Thomas
2023	J	`jnl`	"There's so much responsibility on users right now: " Expert Advice for Staying Safer From Hate and Harassment. CoRR Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, Kurt Thomas
2023	J	`jnl`	Poisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets is Practical. CoRR Nicholas Carlini, Matthew Jagielski, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Daniel Paleka, Will Pearce, Hyrum S. Anderson, Andreas Terzis, Kurt Thomas, Florian Tramèr
2023	J	`jnl`	Robust, privacy-preserving, transparent, and auditable on-device blocklisting. CoRR Kurt Thomas, Sarah Meiklejohn, Michael A. Specter, Xiang Wang, Xavier Llorà, Stephan Somogyi, David Kleidermacher
2023	A*	`conf`	Understanding Digital-Safety Experiences of Youth in the U.S. CHI Diana Freed, Natalie N. Bazarova, Sunny Consolvo, Eunice J. Han, Patrick Gage Kelley, Kurt Thomas, Dan Cosley
2023	A*	`conf`	Understanding the Behaviors of Toxic Accounts on Reddit. WWW Deepak Kumar, Jeff T. Hancock, Kurt Thomas, Zakir Durumeric
2022	A*	`conf`	"It's common and a part of being a content creator": Understanding How Creators Experience and Cope with Hate and Harassment Online. CHI Kurt Thomas, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Patrawat Samermit, Elie Bursztein
2022	A*	`ed.`	31st USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2022, Boston, MA, USA, August 10-12, 2022 USENIX Security Symposium Kevin R. B. Butler, Kurt Thomas
2022	A*	`conf`	SoK: A Framework for Unifying At-Risk User Research. SP Noel Warford, Tara Matthews, Kaitlyn Yang, Omer Akgul, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Nathan Malkin, Michelle L. Mazurek, Manya Sleeper, Kurt Thomas
2022	J	`jnl`	Understanding Longitudinal Behaviors of Toxic Accounts on Reddit. CoRR Deepak Kumar, Jeff T. Hancock, Kurt Thomas, Zakir Durumeric
2021	A*	`conf`	"Why wouldn't someone think of democracy as a target?": Security practices & challenges of people involved with U.S. political campaigns. USENIX Security Symposium Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Kurt Thomas, Lee Dunn, Elie Bursztein
2021	J	`jnl`	"Why wouldn't someone think of democracy as a target?": Security practices & challenges of people involved with U.S. political campaigns. CoRR Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Kurt Thomas, Lee Dunn, Elie Bursztein
2021	—	`conf`	Designing Toxic Content Classification for a Diversity of Perspectives. SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium Deepak Kumar, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Joshua Mason, Elie Bursztein, Zakir Durumeric, Kurt Thomas, Michael D. Bailey
2021	J	`jnl`	Designing Toxic Content Classification for a Diversity of Perspectives. CoRR Deepak Kumar, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Joshua Mason, Elie Bursztein, Zakir Durumeric, Kurt Thomas, Michael D. Bailey
2021	J	`jnl`	SoK: A Framework for Unifying At-Risk User Research. CoRR Noel Warford, Tara Matthews, Kaitlyn Yang, Omer Akgul, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Nathan Malkin, Michelle L. Mazurek, Manya Sleeper, Kurt Thomas
2021	A*	`conf`	SoK: Hate, Harassment, and the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse. SP Kurt Thomas, Devdatta Akhawe, Michael D. Bailey, Dan Boneh, Elie Bursztein, Sunny Consolvo, Nicola Dell, Zakir Durumeric, Patrick Gage Kelley, Deepak Kumar, Damon McCoy, Sarah Meiklejohn, Thomas Ristenpart, Gianluca Stringhini
2020	A*	`conf`	Sunrise to Sunset: Analyzing the End-to-end Life Cycle and Effectiveness of Phishing Attacks at Scale. USENIX Security Symposium Adam Oest, Penghui Zhang, Brad Wardman, Eric Nunes, Jakub Burgis, Ali Zand, Kurt Thomas, Adam Doupé, Gail-Joon Ahn
2020	A	`conf`	Who is targeted by email-based phishing and malware?: Measuring factors that differentiate risk. Internet Measurement Conference Camelia Simoiu, Ali Zand, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein
2019	A*	`conf`	"They Don't Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go": Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia. CHI Nithya Sambasivan, Amna Batool, Nova Ahmed, Tara Matthews, Kurt Thomas, Laura Sanely Gaytán-Lugo, David Nemer, Elie Bursztein, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Sunny Consolvo
2019	A*	`conf`	Evaluating Login Challenges as aDefense Against Account Takeover. WWW Periwinkle Doerfler, Kurt Thomas, Maija Marincenko, Juri Ranieri, Yu Jiang, Angelika Moscicki, Damon McCoy
2019	A*	`conf`	Five Years of the Right to be Forgotten. CCS Theo Bertram, Elie Bursztein, Stephanie Caro, Hubert Chao, Rutledge Chin Feman, Peter Fleischer, Albin Gustafsson, Jess Hemerly, Chris Hibbert, Luca Invernizzi, Lanah Kammourieh Donnelly, Jason Ketover, Jay Laefer, Paul Nicholas, Yuan Niu, Harjinder Obhi, David Price, Andrew Strait, Kurt Thomas, Al Verney
2019	A*	`conf`	Hack for Hire: Exploring the Emerging Market for Account Hijacking. WWW Ariana Mirian, Joe DeBlasio, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Kurt Thomas
2019	A*	`conf`	Protecting accounts from credential stuffing with password breach alerting. USENIX Security Symposium Kurt Thomas, Jennifer Pullman, Kevin Yeo, Ananth Raghunathan, Patrick Gage Kelley, Luca Invernizzi, Borbala Benko, Tadek Pietraszek, Sarvar Patel, Dan Boneh, Elie Bursztein
2019	A*	`conf`	Rethinking the Detection of Child Sexual Abuse Imagery on the Internet. WWW Elie Bursztein, Einat Clarke, Michelle DeLaune, David M. Elifff, Nick Hsu, Lindsey Olson, John Shehan, Madhukar Thakur, Kurt Thomas, Travis Bright
2019	J	`jnl`	Toward Gender-Equitable Privacy and Security in South Asia. IEEE Secur. Priv. Nithya Sambasivan, Nova Ahmed, Amna Batool, Elie Bursztein, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Laura Sanely Gaytán-Lugo, Tara Matthews, David Nemer, Kurt Thomas, Sunny Consolvo
2018	—	`conf`	Data Breaches: User Comprehension, Expectations, and Concerns with Handling Exposed Data. SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium Sowmya Karunakaran, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Oxana Comanescu
2018	—	`conf`	SYBILFUSE: Combining Local Attributes with Global Structure to Perform Robust Sybil Detection. CNS Peng Gao, Binghui Wang, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Kurt Thomas, Prateek Mittal
2018	J	`jnl`	SybilFuse: Combining Local Attributes with Global Structure to Perform Robust Sybil Detection. CoRR Peng Gao, Binghui Wang, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Kurt Thomas, Prateek Mittal
2017	A*	`conf`	Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware?: Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials. CCS Kurt Thomas, Frank Li, Ali Zand, Jacob Barrett, Juri Ranieri, Luca Invernizzi, Yarik Markov, Oxana Comanescu, Vijay Eranti, Angelika Moscicki, Daniel Margolis, Vern Paxson, Elie Bursztein
2017	A*	`conf`	Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps. WWW Danny Yuxing Huang, Doug Grundman, Kurt Thomas, Abhishek Kumar, Elie Bursztein, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren
2017	A*	`conf`	Understanding the Mirai Botnet. USENIX Security Symposium Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael D. Bailey, Matt Bernhard, Elie Bursztein, Jaime Cochran, Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman, Luca Invernizzi, Michalis Kallitsis, Deepak Kumar, Chaz Lever, Zane Ma, Joshua Mason, Damian Menscher, Chad Seaman, Nick Sullivan, Kurt Thomas, Yi Zhou
2016	A*	`conf`	Cloak of Visibility: Detecting When Machines Browse a Different Web. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Luca Invernizzi, Kurt Thomas, Alexandros Kapravelos, Oxana Comanescu, Jean-Michel Picod, Elie Bursztein
2016	A*	`conf`	Investigating Commercial Pay-Per-Install and the Distribution of Unwanted Software. USENIX Security Symposium Kurt Thomas, Juan A. Elices Crespo, Ryan Rasti, Jean-Michel Picod, Cait Phillips, Marc-André Decoste, Chris Sharp, Fabio Tirelo, Ali Tofigh, Marc-Antoine Courteau, Lucas Ballard, Robert Shield, Nav Jagpal, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos, Elie Bursztein, Damon McCoy
2016	—	`conf`	Picasso: Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting for Web Clients. SPSM@CCS Elie Bursztein, Artem Malyshev, Tadek Pietraszek, Kurt Thomas
2016	A*	`conf`	Remedying Web Hijacking: Notification Effectiveness and Webmaster Comprehension. WWW Frank Li, Grant Ho, Eric Kuan, Yuan Niu, Lucas Ballard, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Vern Paxson
2016	A	`conf`	The Abuse Sharing Economy: Understanding the Limits of Threat Exchanges. RAID Kurt Thomas, Rony Amira, Adi Ben-Yoash, Ori Folger, Amir Hardon, Ari Berger, Elie Bursztein, Michael D. Bailey
2015	A*	`conf`	Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 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
2015	—	`conf`	Framing Dependencies Introduced by Underground Commoditization. WEIS Kurt Thomas, Danny Yuxing Huang, David Y. Wang, Elie Bursztein, Chris Grier, Tom Holt, Christopher Kruegel, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, Giovanni Vigna
2015	A	`conf`	Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM...: An Empirical Analysis of Email Delivery Security. Internet Measurement Conference Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Ariana Mirian, James Kasten, Elie Bursztein, Nicolas Lidzborski, Kurt Thomas, Vijay Eranti, Michael D. Bailey, J. Alex Halderman
2015	J	`jnl`	SybilFrame: A Defense-in-Depth Framework for Structure-Based Sybil Detection. CoRR Peng Gao, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Kurt Thomas, Prateek Mittal
2015	A*	`conf`	Trends and Lessons from Three Years Fighting Malicious Extensions. USENIX Security Symposium Nav Jagpal, Eric Dingle, Jean-Philippe Gravel, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Kurt Thomas
2014	A*	`conf`	Consequences of Connectivity: Characterizing Account Hijacking on Twitter. CCS Kurt Thomas, Frank Li, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson
2014	A*	`conf`	Dialing Back Abuse on Phone Verified Accounts. CCS Kurt Thomas, Dmytro Iatskiv, Elie Bursztein, Tadek Pietraszek, Chris Grier, Damon McCoy
2013	A*	`conf`	Practical Comprehensive Bounds on Surreptitious Communication over DNS. USENIX Security Symposium Vern Paxson, Mihai Christodorescu, Mobin Javed, Josyula R. Rao, Reiner Sailer, Douglas Lee Schales, Marc Ph. Stoecklin, Kurt Thomas, Wietse Z. Venema, Nicholas Weaver
2013	—	`—`	The Role of the Underground Economy in Social Network Spam and Abuse. Kurt Thomas
2013	A*	`conf`	Trafficking Fraudulent Accounts: The Role of the Underground Market in Twitter Spam and Abuse. USENIX Security Symposium Kurt Thomas, Damon McCoy, Chris Grier, Alek Kolcz, Vern Paxson
2012	—	`conf`	Adapting Social Spam Infrastructure for Political Censorship. LEET Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson
2012	A*	`conf`	Manufacturing compromise: the emergence of exploit-as-a-service. CCS 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
2011	A*	`conf`	Design and Evaluation of a Real-Time URL Spam Filtering Service. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Justin Ma, Vern Paxson, Dawn Song
2011	A	`conf`	Suspended accounts in retrospect: an analysis of twitter spam. Internet Measurement Conference Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Dawn Song, Vern Paxson
2010	A*	`conf`	@spam: the underground on 140 characters or less. CCS Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Chao Michael Zhang
2010	—	`conf`	The Koobface botnet and the rise of social malware. MALWARE Kurt Thomas, David M. Nicol
2010	A	`conf`	unFriendly: Multi-party Privacy Risks in Social Networks. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, David M. Nicol