Benjamin M. Ampel
Benjamin M. Ampel
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Disrupting Ransomware Actors on the Bitcoin Blockchain: A Graph Embedding Approach
Ransomware attacks continue to pose significant threats to organizations worldwide, with attackers often demanding payment in Bitcoin. …
Benjamin M. Ampel
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Kaeli Otto
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Sagar Samtani
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Hongyi Zhu
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Hsinchun Chen
Last updated on Feb 5, 2026
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Generating Adversarial Phishing Websites to Evade Machine Learning-based Anti-Phishing Detectors: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Machine learning-based anti-phishing detectors are widely deployed to protect users from malicious websites. This paper presents a …
Yang Gao
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Sagar Samtani
,
Hongyi Zhu
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Benjamin M. Ampel
,
Yidong Chai
Last updated on Feb 5, 2026
Mapping Exploit Code on Paste Sites to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework: A Multi-label Transformer Approach
Paste sites serve as repositories for sharing code snippets, including malicious exploit code. Understanding how these exploits map to …
Benjamin M. Ampel
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Tala Vahedi
,
Sagar Samtani
,
Hsinchun Chen
Last updated on Feb 5, 2026
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Benchmarking the Robustness of Phishing Email Detection Systems
Phishing emails have emerged as one of the most common forms of social engineering attacks inflicting organizations. To combat this …
Benjamin M. Ampel
,
Yang Gao
,
James Hu
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Sagar Samtani
,
Hsinchun Chen
Last updated on Feb 5, 2026
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The Effect of Consensus Algorithm on Ethereum Price and Volume
On September 15, 2022, Ethereum shifted from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm. Did this shift lead to an …
Benjamin M. Ampel
Last updated on Feb 5, 2026
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The Role of AI Agents for De-Escalating Commitment in Digital Innovation Projects
The increasing complexity of managerial decision-making for digital innovation activities accelerates cognitive biases like escalation …
Carolin Marx
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Benjamin M. Ampel
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Ben Lazarine
Last updated on Feb 5, 2026
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Distilling Contextual Embeddings Into A Static Word Embedding For Improving Hacker Forum Analytics
Hacker forums provide malicious actors with a large database of tutorials, goods, and assets to leverage for cyber-attacks. Careful …
Benjamin M. Ampel
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Hsinchun Chen
Last updated on Feb 5, 2026
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Exploring the Evolution of Exploit-Sharing Hackers: An Unsupervised Graph Embedding Approach
Cybercrime was estimated to cost the global economy $945 billion in 2020. Increasingly, law enforcement agencies are using social …
Kaeli Otto
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Benjamin M. Ampel
,
Sagar Samtani
,
Hongyi Zhu
,
Hsinchun Chen
Last updated on Feb 5, 2026
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Identifying and Categorizing Malicious Content on Paste Sites: A Neural Topic Modeling Approach
Malicious cyber activities impose substantial costs on the U.S. economy and global markets. Cyber-criminals often use …
Tala Vahedi
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Benjamin M. Ampel
,
Sagar Samtani
,
Hsinchun Chen
Last updated on Feb 5, 2026
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Linking Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework: A Self-Distillation Approach
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) are used by cybersecurity analysts, networks, and endpoints managers to identify and …
Benjamin M. Ampel
,
Sagar Samtani
,
Steven Ullman
,
Hsinchun Chen
Last updated on Feb 5, 2026
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