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Dec 09, 2025 Our paper Designing for the Unlikely: Mitigation Against Rare, High-Impact Threats has been accepted at IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJCS) :sparkles: :sparkles:
Oct 26, 2025 Our paper Hard to See, Harder to Block: Exploring the Challenges in Email Tracking Pixels Detection has been accepted at IEEE Access :sparkles: :sparkles:
Nov 16, 2024 Our paper TGDataset: Collecting and Exploring the Largest Telegram Channels Dataset has been accepted at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) :sparkles: :sparkles:
Nov 14, 2024 Our paper The Blockchain Warfare: Investigating the Ecosystem of Sniper Bots on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain has been accepted at ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) :sparkles: :sparkles:
Oct 24, 2024 Our paper Pretending to be a VIP! Characterization and Detection of Fake and Clone Channels on Telegram has been accepted at Transactions on the WEB (TWEB) :sparkles: :sparkles:
Sep 29, 2024 :sparkles: :sparkles: I have been awarded the Young Researcher 2024 grant by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) :sparkles: :sparkles:
Aug 05, 2024 Our paper The Conspiracy Money Machine: Uncovering Telegram’s Conspiracy Channels and their Profit Model has been accepted at USENIX Security ‘25 :sparkles: :sparkles:
May 13, 2024 Our paper DARD: Deceptive Approaches for Robust Defense Against IP Theft has been accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) :sparkles: :sparkles:
Jan 10, 2024 I will serve as Senior Program Committee (SPC) at IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) 2024
May 11, 2023 Our paper It’s a Trap! Detection and Analysis of Fake on Telegram has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Web Services, IEEE ICWS ‘23 :sparkles: :sparkles:
Mar 11, 2023 Our paper A Game of NFTs: Characterizing NFT Wash Trading in the Ethereum Blockchain has been accepted at the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 43rd IEEE ICDCS’23 :sparkles: :sparkles:
Mar 07, 2023 Our paper Ready, Aim, Snipe! Analysis of Sniper Bots and their Impact on the DeFi Ecosystem has been accepted at the International Workshop on Cryptoasset Analytics, TheWebConf - CAAW ‘23 :sparkles: :sparkles:
Jan 24, 2023 Our paper Translated Texts Under the Lens: From Machine Translation Detection to Source Language Identification has been accepted at the Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA ‘23 :sparkles: :sparkles:
Jan 17, 2023 :sparkles: :sparkles: Our paper Token Spammers, Rug Pulls, and Sniper Bots: An Analysis of the Ecosystem of Tokens in Ethereum and in the Binance Smart Chain (BNB) has been accepted at the USENIX Security ‘23 :sparkles: :sparkles:
Aug 30, 2022 Our paper The Doge of Wall Street: Analysis and Detection of Pump and Dump Cryptocurrency Manipulations has been accepted at the Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) :sparkles: :sparkles:
Nov 23, 2021 We just relased on GitHub our dataset containing more than 300 cryptocurrency Pump & Dump operations and our machine learning model to detect them.
Nov 16, 2021 :sparkles: Award :sparkles: Sapienza - Avvio alla ricerca 2021
Aug 19, 2021 Our paper “The parallel lives of autonomous systems: ASN allocations vs. BGP” has been accepted at IMC 2021 :sparkles: :sparkles:
Mar 31, 2021 I’ll be contract professor for the class of Programming 2 AY:2021/2022
Nov 07, 2015 A long announcement with details
Oct 22, 2015 A simple inline announcement.