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Characterizing cryptocurrency exchange scams - ScienceDirect

Characterizing cryptocurrency exchange scams.
As the indispensable trading platforms of the ecosystem, hundreds of cryptocurrency exchanges are emerging to facilitate the trading of digital assets. While, it also attracts the attention of attackers. A number of scam attacks were reported targeting cryptocurrency exchanges, leading to a huge amount of financial loss. However, no previous work in the research community has systematically studied this problem. This paper makes the first effort to identify and  binance negyedéves határidős ügyletek characterize the cryptocurrency exchange scams. First,  平衡或海妖 over 1500 scam domains and over 300 fake apps are identified, by collecting existing reports and using typosquatting generation techniques. Then, by investigating the relationship between the scam domains and fake apps, this paper identifies 94 scam domain families and 30 fake app families. By further characterizing the impacts of such scams, it is revealed that these scams have incurred financial loss of 520k US dollars at least. It is further observed that the fake apps have been sneaked to major app markets (including Google Play) to infect unsuspicious users. The findings in this paper demonstrate the urgency to identify and prevent cryptocurrency exchange scams. To facilitate future research, all the identified scam domains and fake apps have been publicly released to the research community.
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Pengcheng Xia is a Ph.D. Student in school of Cyberspace Security, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His current research interest is blockchain security.
Haoyu Wang received his Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2016. He was a visiting Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently an Associate Professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His research interests lie at the intersection of mobile system, privacy and  บัตรวีซ่า binance security, and  איז בינאַנסע זיכער צו נוצן program analysis.
Bowen Zhang is an undergraduate student at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His research interest is blockchain security and mobile security.
Ru Ji is an undergraduate student at Beijing University of Posts and  ਬਿਨੈਂਸ ਆਈਪੋ Telecommunications. Her research interest is blockchain security.
Bingyu Gao is an undergraduate student at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Her research interest is blockchain security.
Lei Wu joined Zhejiang University in September 2019 as an assistant professor. His research interest lies mainly in security areas, including mobile security, program/binary analysis, vulnerability detection and exploitation, and blockchain security. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University (NCSU) in June 2015. Prior to joining Zhejiang University as a faculty, he worked as a senior security researcher at Qihoo 360 from 2015 to 2017. After that, he became a co-founder of a startup company named PeckShield Inc. and worked as VP of Engineering from 2017 to 2019.
Xiapu Luo received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently an associate professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His current research focuses on smartphone security and privacy, network security and privacy, and Internet measurement.
Guoai Xu received the Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 2002. He was awarded the title of Professor in 2011. He is currently an associate director  zvinoitwa nemaneja wezvemari with the National Engineering Laboratory of Security Technology for Mobile Internet, School of Cyberspace Security, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His research interests include software security, data analysis.

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