Selected Publications

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2024

Marilyne Ordekian, Antonis Papasavva, Enrico Mariconti, Marie Vasek
A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and other Cryptocurrency Scams
IEEE APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2024)

Antonis Papasavva and Enrico Mariconti
Waiting for Q: An Exploration of QAnon Users’ Online Migration to Poal in the Wake of Voat’s Demise
16th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2024)
pdf

2022

Amin Mekacher, Antonis Papasavva
“I Can’t Keep It Up.” A Dataset from the Defunct Voat.co News Aggregator
16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022)
pdf, dataset

Antonis Papasavva, Max Aliapoulios, Cameron Ballard, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn
The Gospel According to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information
16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022)
pdf
Coverage: NewScientist, The Queen’s Journal

2021

Antonis Papasavva, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
“Is it a Qoincidence?”: An Exploratory Study of QAnon on Voat
30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021)
pdf, virtual presentation
Coverage: WIRED, Echosec, The Daily Beast, openDemocracy, CARR
Highlight: The CEO of Voat, @Atko, posted a hyperlink to our paper and discussed it on the v/whatever subverse.

2020

Antonis Papasavva, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board
14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
pdf, dataset, virtual presentation
Coverage: The Gradient

Kostantinos Papadamou, Antonis Papasavva, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Gianluca Stringhini, Michael Sirivianos
Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Inappropriate Videos Targeting Young Children
14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
pdf, dataset, virtual presentation
Coverage: The New York Times, The Washington Post, New Scientist, Zing, Bleeping Computer
Awards: Honorable mention (top 8)

Current Projects

Antonis Papasavva, Shane Johnson, Ed Lowther, Samantha Lundrigan, Enrico Mariconti, Anna Markovska, Nilufer Tuptuk
Application of AI-based Models for Online Fraud Detection and Analysis
Under peer review process

Sharad Agarwal, Antonis Papasavva, Guillermo Suárez-Tangil, Marie Vasek
Examining Smishing Reports from Online Forums
Under peer review process