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Damon McCoyAssociate Professor
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My research focuses on empirically measuring the security and privacy of technology systems and their intersections with society. Some of my current projects explore the socio-economics of e-crime, censorship evasion, anonymous communication, cyber-physical systems. More generally, I am interested in exploring and improving the security and privacy of large-scale systems.
| Recent Publications |
| The Tools and Tactics Used in Intimate Partner Surveillance: An Analysis of Online Infidelity Forums
Emily Tseng, Rosanna Bellini, Nora McDonald, Matan Danos, Rachel Greenstadt, Damon McCoy, Nicola Dell, Thomas Ristenpart Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, August 2020 | |
| A Security Analysis of the Facebook Ad Library
Laura Edelson, Tobias Lauinger, Damon McCoy IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), San Francisco, CA, May 2020 | |
| The Many Kinds of Creepware Used for Interpersonal Attacks
Kevin A. Roundy, Paula Barmaimon Mendelberg, Nicola Dell, Damon McCoy, Daniel Nissani, Thomas Ristenpart, and Acar Tamersoy IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), San Francisco, CA, May 2020 | |
| The Pod People: Understanding Manipulation of Social Media Popularity via Reciprocity Abuse
Janith Weerasinghe, Bailey Flanigan, Aviel Stein, Damon McCoy, and Rachel Greenstadt Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), April 2020 | |
| Dark Matter: Uncovering the DarkComet RAT Ecosystem
Brown Farinholt, Mohammad Rezaeirad, Damon McCoy, and Kirill Levchenko Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), April 2020 | |
| Mapping the Underground: Supervised Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains
Rasika Bhalerao, Maxwell Aliapoulios, Ilia Shumailov, Sadia Afroz, Damon McCoy IEEE APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), Pittsburgh, PA, November 2019 | |
| Platforms in Everything: Analyzing Ground-Truth Data on the Anatomy and Economics of Bullet-Proof Hosting
Arman Noroozian, Jan Koenders, Eelco van Veldhuizen, Carlos H. Ganan, Sumayah Alrwais, Damon McCoy, and Michel van Eeten
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, August 2019 | |
| Clinical Computer Security for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
Sam Havron, Diana Freed, Rahul Chatterjee, Damon McCoy, Nicola Dell, and Thomas Ristenpart
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, August 2019 | |
| Reading the Tea Leaves: A Comparative Analysis of Threat Intelligence
Vector Guo Li, Matthew Dunn, Paul Pearce, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, and Kirill Levchenko
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, August 2019 | |
| Iniquitous Cord-Cutting:An Analysis of Infringing IPTV Services
Prakhar Pandey, Maxwell Aliapoulios and Damon McCoy
Proceedings of the Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2019 | |
| Evaluating Login Challenges as a Defense Against Account Takeover
Periwinkle Doerfler, Maija Marincenko, Juri Ranieri, Yu Jiang, Angelika Moscicki, Damon McCoy, and Kurt Thomas
Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), San Francisco, CA, May 2019 | |
| Peeling the Onion's User Experience Layer: Examining Naturalistic Use of the Tor Browser
Kevin Gallagher, Sameer Patil, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Damon McCoy, Nasir Memon
ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Toronto, Canada, October 2018 | |
| Schrodinger's RAT: Profiling the Stakeholders in the Remote Access Trojan Ecosystem
Mohammad Rezaeirad, Brown Farinholt, Hitesh Dharmdasani, Paul Pearce, Kirill Levchenko, and Damon McCoy
USENIX Security, Baltimore, MD, August 2018 | |
| Tracking Ransomware End-to-end
Danny Yuxing Huang, Maxwell Matthaios Aliapoulios, Vector Guo Li, Luca Invernizzi, Kylie McRoberts, Elie Bursztein, Jonathan Levin, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren, Damon McCoy IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), San Francisco, CA, May 2018 | |
| The Spyware Used in Intimate Partner Violence
Rahul Chatterjee, Periwinkle Doerfler, Hadas Orgad, Sam Havron, Jackeline Palmer, Diana Freed, Karen Levy, Nicola Dell, Damon McCoy, and Thomas Ristenpart IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), San Francisco, CA, May 2018 | |
| Bullet-Proof Payment Processors
Hongwei Tian, Stephen M. Gaffigan, D. Sean West, and Damon McCoy
IEEE APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), San Diego, CA, May 2018 | |
| Full Publication List |
| Students |
| PhD | ||
| Maxwell Aliapoulios | ||
| Cameron Ballard | ||
| Rasika Bhalerao | ||
| Periwinkle Doerfler | ||
| Laura Edelson | ||
| Paz Grimberg | ||
| Graduated | ||
| Ryan Brunt (MS 2019) Goldman Sacks | ||
| Mohammad Rezaeirad (PhD 2019) Blue Cross Blue Shield->Goldman Sacks | ||
| Mohammad Karami (PhD 2016) Google | ||
| Sean Palka (PhD 2015) Booz Allen Hamilton | ||
| Jason Clark (PhD 2014) CMU SEI->Raytheon | ||
| Hitesh Dharmdasani (MS 2013) FireEye -> Informant Networks |
| Teaching |