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Kurt Thomas

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

42

Venues

9

Active years

2010–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

42 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026CHI"It didn't feel right but I needed a job so desperately": Understanding People's Emotions and Help Needs During Scams.Jake Chanenson, Tara Matthews, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Jessica McClearn, Sarah Meiklejohn, Abhishek Roy, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Amelia Hassoun
2026CHIGovernance of AI-Generated Content: A Case Study on Social Media Platforms.Lan Gao, Abani Ahmed, Oscar Chen, Margaux Reyl, Zayna Cheema, Nick Feamster, Chenhao Tan, Kurt Thomas, Marshini Chetty
2026CHIWho Is At Risk? Examining the Prevalence of Digital-Safety Attacks and Contextual Risk Factors in the United States.Sharon Heung, Claire Florence Weizenegger, Mo Houtti, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Ashley Marie Walker
2026CHIHow Generative AI Empowers Attackers and Defenders Across the Trust & Safety Landscape.Patrick Gage Kelley, Steven Rousso-Schindler, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Allison Woodruff
2025ACSACDROIDCCT: Cryptographic Compliance Test via Trillion-Scale Measurement.Daniel Moghimi, Alexandru-Cosmin Mihai, Borbala Benko, Catherine Vlasov, Elie Bursztein, Kurt Thomas, Laszlo Siroki, Pedro Barbosa, Remi Audebert
2025CCSEvaluating the Robustness of a Production Malware Detection System to Transferable Adversarial Attacks.Milad Nasr, Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Ange Albertini, Loua Farah, Alex Petit-Bianco, Andreas Terzis, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Nicholas Carlini
2025CHI"Perfect is the Enemy of Good": The CISO's Role in Enterprise Security as a Business Enabler.Kimberly Ruth, Veronica A. Rivera, Gautam Akiwate, Aurore Fass, Patrick Gage Kelley, Kurt Thomas, Zakir Durumeric
2025ICSEMAGIKA: AI-Powered Content-Type Detection.Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Loua Farah, Kurt Thomas, Marina Zhang, Ange Albertini, Francois Galilee, Giancarlo Metitieri, Julien Cretin, Alex Petit-Bianco, David Tao, Elie Bursztein
2025SPSupporting Human Raters with the Detection of Harmful Content Using Large Language Models.Kurt Thomas, Patrick Gage Kelley, David Tao, Sarah Meiklejohn, Owen Vallis, Shunwen Tan, Blaz Bratanic, Felipe Tiengo Ferreira, Vijay Kumar Eranti, Elie Bursztein
2025SOUPS"We are not Future-ready": Understanding AI Privacy Risks and Existing Mitigation Strategies from the Perspective of AI Developers in Europe.Alexandra Klymenko, Stephen Meisenbacher, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sai Teja Peddinti, Kurt Thomas, Florian Matthes
2025SOUPSIntegrating Large Language Models into Security Incident Response.Diana Kramer, Lambert Rosique, Ajay Narotam, Elie Bursztein, Patrick Gage Kelley, Kurt Thomas, Allison Woodruff
2024IMCGive and Take: An End-To-End Investigation of Giveaway Scam Conversion Rates.Enze Liu, George Kappos, Eric Mugnier, Luca Invernizzi, Stefan Savage, David Tao, Kurt Thomas, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Sarah Meiklejohn
2024SPPoisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets is Practical.Nicholas Carlini, Matthew Jagielski, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Daniel Paleka, Will Pearce, Hyrum S. Anderson, Andreas Terzis, Kurt Thomas, Florian Tramr
2023CHIUnderstanding Digital-Safety Experiences of Youth in the U.S.Diana Freed, Natalie N. Bazarova, Sunny Consolvo, Eunice J. Han, Patrick Gage Kelley, Kurt Thomas, Dan Cosley
2023CHI"There's so much responsibility on users right now: " Expert Advice for Staying Safer From Hate and Harassment.Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, Kurt Thomas
2023WWWUnderstanding the Behaviors of Toxic Accounts on Reddit.Deepak Kumar, Jeff T. Hancock, Kurt Thomas, Zakir Durumeric
2023SOUPS"There will be less privacy, of course": How and why people in 10 countries expect AI will affect privacy in the future.Patrick Gage Kelley, Celestina Cornejo, Lisa Hayes, Ellie Shuo Jin, Aaron Sedley, Kurt Thomas, Yongwei Yang, Allison Woodruff
2022CHI"It's common and a part of being a content creator": Understanding How Creators Experience and Cope with Hate and Harassment Online.Kurt Thomas, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Patrawat Samermit, Elie Bursztein
2022SPSoK: A Framework for Unifying At-Risk User Research.Noel Warford, Tara Matthews, Kaitlyn Yang, Omer Akgul, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Nathan Malkin, Michelle L. Mazurek, Manya Sleeper, Kurt Thomas
2021SPSoK: Hate, Harassment, and the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse.Kurt Thomas, Devdatta Akhawe, Michael D. Bailey, Dan Boneh, Elie Bursztein, Sunny Consolvo, Nicola Dell, Zakir Durumeric, Patrick Gage Kelley, Deepak Kumar, Damon McCoy, Sarah Meiklejohn, Thomas Ristenpart, Gianluca Stringhini
2021SOUPSDesigning Toxic Content Classification for a Diversity of Perspectives.Deepak Kumar, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Joshua Mason, Elie Bursztein, Zakir Durumeric, Kurt Thomas, Michael D. Bailey
2020IMCWho is targeted by email-based phishing and malware?: Measuring factors that differentiate risk.Camelia Simoiu, Ali Zand, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein
2019CCSFive Years of the Right to be Forgotten.Theo Bertram, Elie Bursztein, Stephanie Caro, Hubert Chao, Rutledge Chin Feman, Peter Fleischer, Albin Gustafsson, Jess Hemerly, Chris Hibbert, Luca Invernizzi, Lanah Kammourieh Donnelly, Jason Ketover, Jay Laefer, Paul Nicholas, Yuan Niu, Harjinder Obhi, David Price, Andrew Strait, Kurt Thomas, Al Verney
2019CHI"They Don't Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go": Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia.Nithya Sambasivan, Amna Batool, Nova Ahmed, Tara Matthews, Kurt Thomas, Laura Sanely Gaytn-Lugo, David Nemer, Elie Bursztein, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Sunny Consolvo
2019WWWRethinking the Detection of Child Sexual Abuse Imagery on the Internet.Elie Bursztein, Einat Clarke, Michelle DeLaune, David M. Elifff, Nick Hsu, Lindsey Olson, John Shehan, Madhukar Thakur, Kurt Thomas, Travis Bright
2019WWWEvaluating Login Challenges as aDefense Against Account Takeover.Periwinkle Doerfler, Kurt Thomas, Maija Marincenko, Juri Ranieri, Yu Jiang, Angelika Moscicki, Damon McCoy
2019WWWHack for Hire: Exploring the Emerging Market for Account Hijacking.Ariana Mirian, Joe DeBlasio, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Kurt Thomas
2018SOUPSData Breaches: User Comprehension, Expectations, and Concerns with Handling Exposed Data.Sowmya Karunakaran, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Oxana Comanescu
2017CCSData Breaches, Phishing, or Malware?: Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials.Kurt Thomas, Frank Li, Ali Zand, Jacob Barrett, Juri Ranieri, Luca Invernizzi, Yarik Markov, Oxana Comanescu, Vijay Eranti, Angelika Moscicki, Daniel Margolis, Vern Paxson, Elie Bursztein
2017WWWPinning Down Abuse on Google Maps.Danny Yuxing Huang, Doug Grundman, Kurt Thomas, Abhishek Kumar, Elie Bursztein, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren
2016CCSPicasso: Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting for Web Clients.Elie Bursztein, Artem Malyshev, Tadek Pietraszek, Kurt Thomas
2016RAIDThe Abuse Sharing Economy: Understanding the Limits of Threat Exchanges.Kurt Thomas, Rony Amira, Adi Ben-Yoash, Ori Folger, Amir Hardon, Ari Berger, Elie Bursztein, Michael D. Bailey
2016WWWRemedying Web Hijacking: Notification Effectiveness and Webmaster Comprehension.Frank Li, Grant Ho, Eric Kuan, Yuan Niu, Lucas Ballard, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Vern Paxson
2016SPCloak of Visibility: Detecting When Machines Browse a Different Web.Luca Invernizzi, Kurt Thomas, Alexandros Kapravelos, Oxana Comanescu, Jean-Michel Picod, Elie Bursztein
2015IMCNeither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM...: An Empirical Analysis of Email Delivery Security.Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Ariana Mirian, James Kasten, Elie Bursztein, Nicolas Lidzborski, Kurt Thomas, Vijay Eranti, Michael D. Bailey, J. Alex Halderman
2015SPAd Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications.Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Chris Grier, Grant Ho, Nav Jagpal, Alexandros Kapravelos, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Vern Paxson, Paul Pearce, Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab
2014CCSDialing Back Abuse on Phone Verified Accounts.Kurt Thomas, Dmytro Iatskiv, Elie Bursztein, Tadek Pietraszek, Chris Grier, Damon McCoy
2014CCSConsequences of Connectivity: Characterizing Account Hijacking on Twitter.Kurt Thomas, Frank Li, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson
2012CCSManufacturing compromise: the emergence of exploit-as-a-service.Chris Grier, Lucas Ballard, Juan Caballero, Neha Chachra, Christian J. Dietrich, Kirill Levchenko, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Andreas Pitsillidis, Niels Provos, M. Zubair Rafique, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Christian Rossow, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
2011IMCSuspended accounts in retrospect: an analysis of twitter spam.Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Dawn Song, Vern Paxson
2011SPDesign and Evaluation of a Real-Time URL Spam Filtering Service.Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Justin Ma, Vern Paxson, Dawn Song
2010CCS@spam: the underground on 140 characters or less.Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Chao Michael Zhang