Publications

Publications

Aliai Eusebi, Marie Vasek, Ella Cockbain, and Enrico Mariconti. The Ethics of Going Deep: Challenges in Machine Learning for Sensitive Security Domains. In 1st Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security. June 2022. [ Paper ]

Sharad Agarwal and Marie Vasek. Investigating the concentration of High Yield Investment Programs in the United Kingdom. In 4th Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations. June 2022. [ Paper ]

JT Hamrick, Farhang Rouhi, Arghya Mukherjee, Marie Vasek, Tyler Moore, and Neil Gandal. Analyzing Target-Based Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security. November 2021. [ Paper ]

JT Hamrick, Farhang Rouhi, Arghya Mukherjee, Amir Feder, Neil Gandal, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. An Examination of the Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Ecosystem. In Information Processing & Management 58(4), 102506. July 2021. [ Paper ]

Neil Gandal, JT Hamrick, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. The Rise and Fall of Cryptocurrency Coins and Tokens. In Decisions in Economics and Finance, June 2021. [ Paper ]

Andrew Morin, Marie Vasek, and Tyler Moore. Detecting Text Reuse in Cryptocurrency Whitepapers. In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. May 2021. [  Paper ]

Ross Anderson, Chris Barton, Rainer Böhme, Richard Clayton, Carlos Gañán, Tom Grasso, Michael Levi, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. "Measuring the Changing Cost of Cybercrime". In Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, June 2019. [ Paper ]

JT Hamrick, Farhang Rouhi, Arghya Mukherjee, Amir Feder, Neil Gandal, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. "The Economics of Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes". In Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, June 2019. [ Paper ]

Amir Feder, Neil Gandal, JT Hamrick, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. "The Rise and Fall of Cryptocurrencies". In Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, June 2018. [ Paper ]

Marie Vasek and Tyler Moore. "Analyzing the Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Ecosystem". In Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research, March 2018. [ Paper | Presentation ]

Marie Vasek, Matthew Weeden, and Tyler Moore. "Measuring the Impact of Sharing Abuse Data with Web Hosting Providers". In 3rd ACM Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security, October 2016. [ Paper | Presentation ]

Marie Vasek, Joseph Bonneau, Ryan Castellucci, Cameron Keith, and Tyler Moore. "The Bitcoin Brain Drain: Examining the Use and Abuse of Bitcoin Brain Wallets". In Financial Cryptography and Data Security, February 2016. [ Paper | Presentation | Dataset ]

Marie Vasek, John Wadleigh, and Tyler Moore. "Hacking is not Random: A Case-Control Study of Webserver-Compromise Risk". In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 13(2):206-219, 2016. [ Paper ]

Marie Vasek and Tyler Moore. "There's No Free Lunch, Even Using Bitcoin: Tracking the Popularity and Profits of Virtual Currency Scams". In Financial Cryptography and Data Security, January 2015. [ Paper | Presentation ]

Marie Vasek and Tyler Moore. "Identifying Risk Factors for Webserver Compromise". In Financial Cryptography and Data Security, March 2014. [ Paper | Presentation | Dataset ]

Marie Vasek, Micah Thornton, and Tyler Moore. "Empirical Analysis of Denial-of-Service Attacks in the Bitcoin Ecosystem". In 1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research, March 2014. [ Paper | Presentation | Dataset ]

Benjamin Johnson, Aron Laska, Jens Grossklags, Marie Vasek, and Tyler Moore. "Game-Theoretic Analysis of DDoS Attacks Against Bitcoin Mining Pools". In 1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research, March 2014. [ Paper ]

Marie Vasek and Tyler Moore. "Empirical Analysis of Factors Affecting Malware URL Detection". In 8th APWG eCrime Researchers Summit (eCrime), September 2013. [ Paper | Presentation ]

Marie Vasek and Tyler Moore. "Do Malware Reports Expedite Cleanup? An Experimental Study". In 5th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), Berkeley, CA, August 2012. [ Paper | Presentation | Dataset | Blog Post ]

Theses

Marie Vasek. "Measuring Bitcoin-based Cybercrime". Dissertation, The University of Tulsa. May 2017. [ Paper | Presentation ]

Marie Vasek. "Representing Expressive Types in Blocks Programming Languages". Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Wellesley College. May 2012. [ Paper | Presentation ]