Publications

Papers, preprints, and technical reports from the group.

2026

Journal of Cybersecurity

Situational crime prevention and child online safety: a comparative analysis of metaverse-ready games

Linda Cavaioni, Ashly Fuller, Martin Lo, Tiago Garrido Marques, Enrico Mariconti, Lorenzo Pasculli

International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '26)

Decoding Influence Narratives: Identifying Persuasion and Propaganda Techniques in Twitter Discourse on Violent Extremism

Shu Jia Chee, Sara Rubini, Paul Gill, Enrico Mariconti

Social Science Computer Review

Decoding Psychological Abuse: A Comparative Study of Natural Language Processing (NLP)Classifiers Using Reddit Data

Maya Ashkenazi, Jessica Lilly Neubauer, Maria Perez-Ortiz, Enrico Mariconti, Leonie Maria Tanczer

2025

Harm Reduction Journal

Platforms, risk perceptions, and reporting: the impact of illicit advertisements on social media among UK secondary students

Ashly Fuller, Marie Vasek, Enrico Mariconti, Shane D Johnson

ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) '25

Fishing for Smishing: Understanding SMS Phishing Infrastructure and Strategies by Mining Public User Reports

Sharad Agarwal, Antonis Papasavva, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Marie Vasek

ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) '25

"Edit: I'm sorry for being offensive, this is getting downvoted and I feel terrible": Implicit Social Norms as Governance in Identity-Based Communities

Kyle Beadle, Mark Warner, Marie Vasek

New Security Paradigms Workshop '25

Card-Not-Present Fraud resulting from Smishing Attacks: An Experimental Study

Sharad Argawal, Marie Vasek

Crime Science

Applications of AI-based models for online fraud detection and analysis

Antonis Papasavva, Samantha Lundrigan, Ed Lowther, Shane Johnson, Enrico Mariconti, Anna Markovska, Nilufer Tuptuk

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy '25

SoK: a privacy framework for security research using social media data

Kyle Beadle, Kieron Ivy Turk, Aliai Eusebi, Mindy Tran, Marilyne Ordekian, Enrico Mariconti, Yixin Zou, Marie Vasek

USENIX Security '25

'Hey mum, I dropped my phone down the toilet': Investigating Hi Mum and Dad {SMS} Scams in the United Kingdom

Sharad Agarwal, Emma Harvey, Enrico Mariconti, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Marie Vasek

2024

Crime Science

Positive behaviour interventions in online gaming: a systematic review of strategies applied in other environments

Tiago Marques, Sandy Schumann, Enrico Mariconti