Zubair Shafiq

Malware Slums: Measurement and Analysis of Malware on Traffic Exchanges

2016

Auto-surf and manual-surf traffic exchanges are an increasingly popular way of artificially generating website traffic. Previous research in this area has focused on the makeup, usage, and monetization of underground traffic exchanges. In this paper, …

FP-Radar: Longitudinal Measurement and Early Detection of Browser\n Fingerprinting

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Browser fingerprinting is a stateless tracking technique that attempts to\ncombine information exposed by multiple different web APIs to create a unique\nidentifier for tracking users across the web. Over the last decade, trackers\nhave abused several existing …

CookieGraph: Understanding and Detecting First-Party Tracking Cookies

2023

As third-party cookie blocking is becoming the norm in mainstream web browsers, advertisers and trackers have started to use first-party cookies for tracking. To understand this phenomenon, we conduct a differential measurement study with versus …