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Articles Tagged: Economics of security and privacy

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Scams at Scale: Unmasking Crypto Fraud and Social Engineering on the Modern Web

From legitimate-looking cryptocurrency investment portals to fake celebrity giveaways, scammers are building sophisticated campaigns that exploit users' trust across the web to deprive them of their life savings. In this article, we unpack how some of these campaigns operate at scale and how researchers can systematically detect, track, and stop them.

By Abisheka Pitumpe, Muhammad Muzammil, Xigao Li, Nick Nikiforakis, Amir Rahmati, August 2025

PDF | HTML | In the Digital Library

Differential privacy as a tool for truthfulness in games

SECTION: Features: Incentivizing Truthfulness

Differential privacy as a tool for truthfulness in games

Differential privacy guarantees the input data from a single individual has a very small impact on the output of a computation. Tools from privacy can also be used in game theory and economics to incentivize people to truthfully reveal their data.

By Rachel Cummings, September 2017

PDF | HTML | In the Digital Library