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  1. Infrastructure as Compromise: Abusing Residual Trust in Infrastructure as Code Tools

    Article • June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  2. The Power to Never Be Wrong: Evasions and Anachronistic Attacks Against Web Archives

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Robin Kirchner, Nick Nikiforakis

  3. What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Mitigating Supply Chain Attacks with a Link Integrity Management System

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  4. A Decade-long Analysis of Global Trends in Advanced Persistent Threats

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis, Shakhzod Yuldoshkhujaev

  5. The Poorest Man in Babylon: A Longitudinal Study of Cryptocurrency Investment Scams

    Article • April 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Muhammad Muzammil, Nick Nikiforakis

  6. Panning for gold.eth: Understanding and Analyzing ENS Domain Dropcatching

    Article • November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis, Muhammad Muzammil

  7. Scan Me If You Can: Understanding and Detecting Unwanted Vulnerability Scanning

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  8. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Integrity of Modern JavaScript

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  9. Role Models: Role-based Debloating for Web Applications

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  10. Introduction to the Special Issue on Vulnerabilities

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Victoria Wang, Nick Nikiforakis

  11. Verba Volant, Scripta Volant: Understanding Post-publication Title Changes in News Outlets

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  12. Catching Transparent Phish: Analyzing and Detecting MITM Phishing Toolkits

    Article • November 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  13. Click This, Not That: Extending Web Authentication with Deception

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  14. Where are you taking me?Understanding Abusive Traffic Distribution Systems

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  15. You've Changed: Detecting Malicious Browser Extensions through their Update Deltas

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  16. Betrayed by Your Dashboard

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  17. Panning for gold.com

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  18. Exposing Search and Advertisement Abuse Tactics and Infrastructure of Technical Support Scammers

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  19. Hiding in Plain Sight

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  20. Hindsight

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  21. The Wolf of Name Street

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  22. What's in a Name?

    Article • April 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  23. No Honor Among Thieves

    Article • April 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  24. Are You Sure You Want to Contact Us? Quantifying the Leakage of PII via Website Contact Forms

    Article • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Nick Nikiforakis

  25. The Clock is Still Ticking

    Article • October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  26. Maneuvering Around Clouds

    Article • October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis

  27. Drops for Stuff

    Article • October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Nikiforakis