Nick Nikiforakis

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April 2026We're hosting ACNS 2026 at Stony Brook in June! Join us!
July 2025Multiple papers accepted at CCS, RAID, and SecWeb. Congratulations to Robin, Chris, Narong, and all our collaborators!
January 2025Papers accepted at WWW 2025 and USENIX Security 2025. Congratulations to Muzammil, Abi, Xigao, and Johnny!
September 2024IMC 2024 accepted our paper on ENS dropcatching. Congratulations to Muzammil and Zhengyu!
August 2024Our USENIX Security paper on web application fingerprinting won a Distinguished Paper Award!
 eCrime 2024 accepted our paper on Web3 typosquatting. Congratulations to Muzammil!
May 2024Paper on using deception to protect web applications accepted at DIMVA 2024. Congrats to Billy!
February 2024Our 2022 paper on Certificate Transparency Bots won the NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity paper award!
September 2023Two papers accepted at IEEE S&P 2024 and NDSS 2024. Congratulations to Chris, Xigao, and Brian!
June 2023Two papers accepted at USENIX Security 2023. Congratulations to Babak and Chris!
January 2023Two papers accepted at WWW 2023. Congratulations to Xigao, Babak, and Johnny!
December 2022Papers on debloating and cryptocurrency scams were accepted at CODASPY and NDSS. Congratulations Babak and Xigao!
August 2022Paper on continuous extension fingerprinting (in collaboration with UIC) was accepted at CCS. Congratulations Kostas and Panos!
May 2022Paper on Certificate Transparency bots was accepted to USENIX Security 2022. Congratulations to Brian and Johnny!
February 2022Paper on extension fingerprinting (in collaboration with UIC) was accepted to USENIX Security 2022. Congratulations Kostas, Panos, and Soroush!
January 2022Paper on post-publication title changes accepted at WWW 2022. Congratulations to Xingzhi and Brian!
November 2021Our work on MITM phishing kits got the 3rd place at the CSAW 2021 Applied Research Competition!
October 2021 Paper on mobile-sandbox evasions accepted to NDSS 2022. Congratulations to Brian and Babak!
August 2021 Paper on residual trust accepted at IEEE S&P 2022. Congratulations to Johnny!
  Year-long study on MITM phishing kits accepted at CCS 2021. Congratulations to Brian and Babak!
February 2021 Paper on deception-augmented authentication accepted at ASIACCS 2021. Congratulations to Tim and Johnny!
  Paper on characterization of web bots accepted at IEEE S&P 2021. Congratulations to Xigao and Babak!
January 2021 Paper accepted from collaboration with CMU at WWW 2021. Congratulations to Meng and Brian!
December 2020 Paper accepted at USENIX Security 2021. Congratulations to Pierre and Oleksii!
  Paper accepted at NDSS 2021. Congratulations to Brian!
April 2020 ONR funded my YIP proposal on monitoring web application updates. Thank you ONR!
  Two papers accepted at DIMVA! Congratulations to Babak, Pierre, and Oleksii!
March 2020 NSF funded my CAREER proposal on ensuring the integrity of web content! Thank you NSF!
  I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
February 2020 Paper accepted at IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2020. Congratulations Brian!
July 2019 Paper accepted at RAID 2019. Congratulations Tim and Najmeh!
May 2019 Paper accepted at DIMVA 2019. Congrats Pierre!
April 2019 Two papers accepted at USENIX Security 2019!! Congratulations to Babak, Pierre, and Oleksii!
  Paper accepted at AsiaCCS 2019! Congratulations to Najmeh!
January 2019 Paper accepted at WWW 2019!
  Amazon funded our proposal on using cloud services to detect bots. Thank you Amazon!
November 2018 Paper accepted at NDSS 2019!
September 2018 NSF funded our proposal on understanding and detecting malicious web bots. Thank you NSF!
December 2017 Three papers accepted at WWW 2018!
October 2017 Our S&P 2017 paper on malware sandbox evasion is a finalist in the CSAW 2017 competition!
August 2017 Three papers accepted at CCS 2017!
 Paper with Tim accepted at ACSAC 2017!
March 2017 Two papers accepted at IEEE S&P 2017!
  WIRED wrote about our work on technical support scams.
  Our paper on technical support scams received a "Distinguished Paper Award" at NDSS 2017!
Jan 2017 I am the publicity chair of RAID 2017. Don't forget to submit your cool work!
Dec 2016 Two papers accepted at WWW 2017!!
Oct 2016 Papers accepted at EuroS&P and NDSS!
Aug 2016I will be co-chairing eCrime 2017 with Damon McCoy! Consider submitting your best cybercrime work.
Jul 2016Our PETS paper got an Honorable Mention Award at PETS 2016
Jun 2016Our Dagstuhl Workshop on Online Privacy and Web Transparency was accepted!
Jun 2016NSF funded our two proposals on mobile web security and malware. Thank you NSF!
Mar 2016ONR funded our proposals on tripwires and honeypots. Thank you ONR!
Dec 2015Paper with Oleksii and Sharique accepted at WWW 2016!
Oct 2015Paper with Zubair accepted at NDSS 2016!
Jul 2015Paper with Oleksii accepted at PETS 2016!
Jan 2015Our paper got accepted at WWW 2015!
Oct 2014Two papers accepted at NDSS 2015!