Publications

Understanding Incentivized Mobile App Installs on Google Play Store

Shehroze Farooqi, Alvaro Feal, Tobias Lauinger, Damon McCoy, Zubair Shafiq, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2020. [PDF] [Git]
(Best Paper Award Nominee)

CanaryTrap: Detecting Data Misuse by Third-Party Apps on Online Social Networks

Shehroze Farooqi, Maaz Musa, Zubair Shafiq, Fareed Zaffar. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), 2020. [PDF] [Git]

Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks [Technical Perspective]

Shehroze Farooqi, Fareed Zaffar, Nektarios Leontiadis, Zubair Shafiq. Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2020. [PDF]
(CACM Research Highlights)

Measurement and Early Detection of Third-Party Application Abuse on Twitter

Shehroze Farooqi, Zubair Shafiq. Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2019. [PDF]

Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks

Shehroze Farooqi, Fareed Zaffar, Nektarios Leontiadis, Zubair Shafiq. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2017. [PDF]
(Best Paper Award)

Accurate Detection of Automatically Spun Content via Stylometric Analysis

Usman Shahid, Shehroze Farooqi, Raza Ahmad, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan, Fareed Zaffar. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2017. [PDF]

Measuring, Characterizing, and Detecting Facebook Like Farms

Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Shehroze Farooqi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Zubair Shafiq. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (ACM TOPS 2017). [PDF]

Characterizing Key Stakeholders in an Online Black-Hat Marketplace

Shehroze Farooqi, Muhammad Ikram, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Fareed Zaffar, Zubair Shafiq. IEEE eCrime Research Summit, 2017. [PDF]

Malware Slums: Measurement and Analysis of Malware on Traffic Exchanges

Salman Yousaf, Umar Iqbal, Shehroze Farooqi, Raza Ahmed, Fareed Zaffar, Zubair Shafiq. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2016. [PDF]

A Classification Based Framework to Predict Viral Threads

Hashim Sharif, Saad Ismail, Shehroze Farooqi, Mohammad Taha Khan, MA. Gulzar, MH. Lakhani, Fareed Zaffar, Ahmad Abbasi. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), 2015. [PDF]