Interdisciplinary Cybercrime Project

Informazioni relative al progetto

iCrime

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 949127

DOI

10.3030/949127

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 19 Gennaio 2021

Data di avvio 1 Luglio 2021

Data di completamento 30 Giugno 2026

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Costo totale

€ 1 499 966,00

Contributo UE

€ 1 499 966,00

Coordinato da

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

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I link ai risultati e alle pubblicazioni dei progetti del 7° PQ, così come i link ad alcuni tipi di risultati specifici come dataset e software, sono recuperati dinamicamente da .OpenAIRE .

Pubblicazioni

Conference proceedings (37)

Stop Following Me! Evaluating the Effectiveness of Anti-Stalking Features of Personal Item Tracking Devices

Autori: Kieron Ivy Turk; Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: ACM European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), Numero 1, 2024
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.07157

Argot as a trust signal: Slang, jargon & reputation on a large cybercrime forum

Autori: Hughes, J., Caines, A., & Hutchings, A.
Pubblicato in: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 2022
Editore: WEIS

Spy-oT: understanding how users learn to use internet of things devices for abusive purposes

Autori: Kieron Ivy Turk, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: Twenty-First USENIX Conference on Usable Privacy and Security, 2025
Editore: USENIX
DOI: 10.5555/3767870.3767881

App-solutely Modded: Surveying Modded App Market Operators and Original App Developers

Autori: Luis A. Saavedra, Hridoy S. Dutta, Alastair R. Beresford, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 20th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2025, Pagina/e 739-758
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3708821.3733883

Can't Keep Them Away: The failures of anti-stalking protocols in personal item tracking devices

Autori: Turk, K. I., Hutchings, A., & Beresford, A. R.
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the Security Protocols Workshop, 2023
Editore: Springer

Web(er) of Hate: A survey on how hate speech is typed

Autori: Luna Wang, Andrew Caines, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), 2025
Editore: ACL

Stayin’ Alive: How Global Stolen Data Markets Thrive on Telegram

Autori: Tina Marjanov, Taro Tsuchiya, Konstantinos Ioannidis, Jack Hughes, Nicolas Christin, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: USENIX Security, 2026
Editore: USENIX Security

Assessing the aftermath: the effects of a global takedown against DDoS-for-hire services

Autori: Anh V. Vu, Ben Collier, Daniel R. Thomas, John Kristoff, Richard Clayton, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: USENIX Security, 2025
Editore: USENIX
DOI: 10.5555/3766078.3766263

Catch Me If You Scan: A Longitudinal Analysis of Stalkerware Evasion Tactics

Autori: Anahitha Vijay, Luis A. Saavedra, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: 2025 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2026, Pagina/e 1-16
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecrime66972.2025.11327931

Digital drift and the evolution of a large cybercrime forum

Autori: Hughes, J. & Hutchings, A.
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, 2023
Editore: IEEE

In the market for a botnet? An in-depth analysis of botnet-related listings on darkweb marketplaces

Autori: Georgoulias, D., Pedersen, J. M., Hutchings, A., Falch, M., & Vasilomanolakis, E.
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) 2023, 2023
Editore: IEEE

Short Paper: DeFi Deception - Uncovering the prevalence of rugpulls in cryptocurrency projects

Autori: Agarwal, S., Atondo Siu, G., Ordekian, M., Hutchings, A., Mariconti, E., & Vasek, M.
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2023
Editore: FC

Peer(ing) Pressure: Achieving social action at scale in the Internet infrastructure

Autori: Ben Collier, Richard Clayton
Pubblicato in: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 2024
Editore: WEIS

"""Invest in crypto!"": An analysis of investment scam advertisements found in Bitcointalk"

Autori: Atondo Siu, G., Hutchings, A., Vasek, M., & Moore, T.
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2022
Editore: IEEE

Investigating Wrench Attacks: Physical Attacks Targeting Cryptocurrency Users

Autori: Marilyne Ordekian; Gilberto Atondo Siu; Alice Hutchings; Marie Vasek
Pubblicato in: Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT),, Numero 1, 2024
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.4230/lipics.aft.2024.24

Beyond the Binary: Analysing transphobic hate and harassment online

Autori: Anna Talas, Summer Leigh, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: 9th ACL Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), 2025
Editore: ACL

ModZoo: A Large-Scale Study of Modded Android Apps and Their Markets

Autori: Luis A. Saavedra, Hridoy S. Dutta, Alastair R. Beresford, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: 2024 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2025, Pagina/e 162-174
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecrime66200.2024.00018

Yet Another Diminishing Spark: Low-Level Cyberattacks in the Israel-Gaza Conflict

Autori: Anh V. Vu, Alice Hutchings, Ross Anderson
Pubblicato in: 2025 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), 2025, Pagina/e 126-131
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/eurospw67616.2025.00020

SoK: Digging into the Digital Underworld of Stolen Data Markets

Autori: Tina Marjanov, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2025, Pagina/e 1-18
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/sp61157.2025.00037

'Get a higher return on your savings!': Comparing adverts for cryptocurrency investment scams across platforms

Autori: Siu, GA; Hutchings, A
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Numero 1, 2023
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.17863/cam.96664

Lost in Translation: Analyzing Non-English Cybercrime Forums

Autori: Mariella Mischinger, Jack Hughes, Fedor Vitiugin, Sergio Pastrana, Alice Hutchings, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
Pubblicato in: 2025 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2026, Pagina/e 1-16
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecrime66972.2025.11327989

A ‘sophisticated attack’? Innovation, technical sophistication, and creativity in the cybercrime ecosys- tem

Autori: Ben Collier Richard Clayton
Pubblicato in: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 2022
Editore: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security

Stand-Alone Complex or Vibercrime? Exploring the adoption and innovation of GenAI tools, coding assistants, and agents within cybercrime ecosystems

Autori: Jack Hughes, Ben Collier, Daniel R. Thomas
Pubblicato in: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 2026
Editore: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security

No Easy Way Out: the Effectiveness of Deplatforming an Extremist Forum to Suppress Hate and Harassment

Autori: Vu, Anh V.; Hutchings, Alice; Anderson, Ross
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), Numero 1, 2024
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2304.07037

Uncovering the Trust Signals Supporting Telegram’s Cybercrime Economy

Autori: Roy Ricaldi, Tina Marjanov, Luca Allodi, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: 2025 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2026, Pagina/e 1-17
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecrime66972.2025.11327769

Autism Disclosures and Cybercrime Discourse on a Large Underground Forum

Autori: Jessica Man, Gilberto Atondo Siu, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: 2023 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2024, Pagina/e 1-14
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecrime61234.2023.10485504

PostCog: A tool for interdisciplinary research into underground forums at scale

Autori: Ildiko Pete; Jack Hughes; Andrew Caines; Anh V. Vu; Harshad Gupta; Alice Hutchings; Ross Anderson; Paula Buttery
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations, Numero 1, 2022
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.17863/cam.83768

Threat Me Right: A Human HARMS Threat Model for Technical Systems

Autori: Kieron Ivy Turk, Anna Talas, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: Security Protocols Workshop, 2025
Editore: Springer

Click Here to Exit: An Evaluation of Quick Exit Buttons

Autori: Kieron Ivy Turk; Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Numero 1, 2023
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3581078

Love Bytes Back: Cybercrime Following Relationship Breakdown

Autori: Quincy Taylor, Anna Talas, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: 2024 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2025, Pagina/e 123-135
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecrime66200.2024.00015

Hacker’s Paradise: Analysing music in a cybercrime forum

Autori: Talas, A. & Hutchings, A.
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) 2023, 2023
Editore: IEEE

ExtremeBB: A database for large-scale research into online hate, harassment, the manosphere and extremism.

Autori: Vu, A. V., Wilson, L., Chua, Y. T., Shumailov, I., & Anderson, R.
Pubblicato in: ACL Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH@ACL), 2023
Editore: ACL

Autism disclosures and cybercrime discourse on a large underground forum

Autori: Man, J, Atondo-Siu, G., & Hutchings, A.
Pubblicato in: APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2023
Editore: IEEE

Breaking the ice: Using transparency to overcome the cold start problem in an underground market

Autori: Tina Marjanov, Konstantinos Ioannidis, Tom Hyndman, Nicolas Seyedzadeh, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 2024
Editore: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security

Getting Bored of Cyberwar: Exploring the Role of Low-level Cybercrime Actors in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Autori: Anh V. Vu, Daniel R. Thomas, Ben Collier, Alice Hutchings, Richard Clayton, Ross Anderson
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024, 2025, Pagina/e 1596-1607
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3589334.3645401

Measuring the Unmeasurable: Estimating True Population of Hidden Online Communities

Autori: Jonah Gibbon, Tina Marjanov, Alice Hutchings, John Aston
Pubblicato in: 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), 2024, Pagina/e 56-66
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/eurospw61312.2024.00014

iOSModZoo: A Large-Scale Study of Third-Party iOS App Markets

Autori: Luis A. Saavedra, Hridoy S. Dutta, Alastair R. Beresford, Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2026, Pagina/e 133-144
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3765613.3797450

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Peer(ing) pressure: maintenance, care, and infrastructural capital in a cybersecurity intervention at Internet scale

Autori: Ben Collier, Richard Clayton, James Stewart
Pubblicato in: Information, Communication & Society, Numero 28, 2025, Pagina/e 951-970, ISSN 1369-118X
Editore: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2025.2464895

Technology Facilitated Abuse and the Security Paradox

Autori: Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: IEEE Security & Privacy, Numero 24, 2026, Pagina/e 71-73, ISSN 1540-7993
Editore: IEEE Computer Society
DOI: 10.1109/msec.2026.3671136

The Art of Cybercrime Community Research

Autori: Hughes, J., Pastrana, S, Hutchings, A., Afroz, S., Samtani, S., Li, W., & Santana Marin, E.
Pubblicato in: Computing Surveys, 2024, ISSN 0360-0300
Editore: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.

The Art of Cybercrime Community Research

Autori: Jack Hughes, Sergio Pastrana, Alice Hutchings, Sadia Afroz, Sagar Samtani, Weifeng Li, Ericsson Santana Marin
Pubblicato in: ACM Computing Surveys, Numero 56, 2025, Pagina/e 1-26, ISSN 0360-0300
Editore: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3639362

The Amplification of Online Deviancy Through the Language of Violent Crime, War, and Aggression

Autori: Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: IEEE Security & Privacy, Numero 22, 2024, Pagina/e 81-84, ISSN 1540-7993
Editore: IEEE Computer Society
DOI: 10.1109/msec.2024.3353428

Police Behaving Badly

Autori: Alice Hutchings
Pubblicato in: IEEE Security & Privacy, Numero 23, 2025, Pagina/e 80-82, ISSN 1540-7993
Editore: IEEE Computer Society
DOI: 10.1109/msec.2024.3500152

A Graph-Based Stratified Sampling Methodology for the Analysis of (Underground) Forums

Autori: Giorgio Di Tizio; Gilberto Atondo Siu; Alice Hutchings; Fabio Massacci
Pubblicato in: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2023, ISSN 1556-6013
Editore: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tifs.2023.3304424

Peer(ing) pressure: a cybersecurity intervention at global scale in the internet infrastructure

Autori: Ben Collier, Richard Clayton
Pubblicato in: Journal of Cybersecurity, Numero 11, 2025, ISSN 2057-2085
Editore: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/cybsec/tyaf014

A Large-Scale Study of Telegram Bots

Autori: Taro Tsuchiya, Haoxiang Yu, Tina Marjanov, Alice Hutchings, Nicolas Christin, Alejandro Cuevas
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Numero 20, 2026, Pagina/e 2280-2293, ISSN 2334-0770
Editore: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42750

Other (2)

An evaluation of police interventions for cybercrime prevention

Autori: Maria Bada, Alice Hutchings, Yanna Papadodimitraki, Richard Clayton
Pubblicato in: 2023
Editore: University of Cambridge
DOI: 10.48456/tr-983

Transparent truths: Critical friends and coordinated disclosure

Autori: Alice Hutchings, Alastair Beresford
Pubblicato in: Festschrift in memory of Ross Anderson, 2025
Editore: University of Cambridge