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Gianluca Stringhini

@gianlucastringhini.com
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Associate Professor at BU. Cybersecurity and Cybersafety. Come for the memes, stay for the science. Skeets are my own

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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 28/07/2026
At the University of Vermont for IC2S2, where I will co-host a tutorial on detecting influence campaigns on social media this afternoon. Say hi if you are here! ic2s2-2026.org/program/
Conference hall with the conference logo projected on a big screen
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 23/02/2026
Together with @mrjimmyblack.com (and Claude) we developed a tool that helps detecting hallucinated references in academic papers! This evolved from a simple python script into a full system written in Rust to quickly go through thousands of citations. Check it out! github.com/gianlucasb/h...
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 02/01/2026
My daily audience while writing grant proposals
Sunlit dogs in doorway
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 10/12/2025
The 2025 @acsacconf.bsky.social is ready to start! Looking forward to three days of papers and discussions. Come say hi if you are around!
Sunrise in Waikiki
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 21/11/2025
Our paper "The Cost of Convenience: Identifying, Analyzing, and Mitigating Predatory Loan Applications on Android" was accepted at ASIACCS 2026! Work led by my student Olawale Akanji. Stay tuned for the PDF!
System process for LoanWatch
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 16/09/2025
E-commerce fraudulent websites are a big problem, yet the community lacks open and comprehensive approaches to proactively discover them. In our upcoming NDSS paper we present Loki, a system that mines search engine queries to surface new scam websites. Read our paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12181
Loki's analysis pipeline
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 05/08/2025
Spot the differences
A picture of a dog next to an AI rendering of an Egyptian statue of a dog
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 07/07/2025
Practicing for my plan B career
Homemade pizzaHomemade pizza
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 05/06/2025
Worthy companion
"How to do just about anything on the Internet" book
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 21/04/2025
Also this paragraph might apply here sadly
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 19/04/2025
In the wake of recent funding cuts, maybe I should change career. Thanks targeted ads!
Ad offering professional soccer tryouts in England
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 02/04/2025
That's odd, it refuses to create images for the same prompt for me. I noticed that it's very temperamental, for sure the safety mechanisms aren't bulletproof...
ChatGPT declining to create a realistic image of a celebrity
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 19/03/2025
Spending the week in the beautiful Brazilian countryside brainstorming research collaborations
NSF-FAPESP workshop on cybersecurity and privacy
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 15/02/2025
The NSF Staff Directory page seems to be gone...
Error page on the NSF website
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 04/01/2025
Genius piece of work.
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 18/12/2024
ACSAC2024 was a success! Thanks to everyone who made the conference possible and see you next year! In case you missed this edition, we’ll still be in Waikiki!
Sunset in Waikiki
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 10/12/2024
Almost ready to kick off the @acsacconf.bsky.social main program tomorrow!
Waikiki beach
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 06/12/2024
This resonates with our research where we found that Russian trolls on Reddit had entire conversations among each other, taking opposite sides with the goal of polarizing discussion, with the goal of shifting the vibe and conversation topics of entire subreddits. 📝 arxiv.org/pdf/2112.00443
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 16/11/2024
Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 02/08/2024
Check out our USENIX Security paper "PIXELMOD: Improving Soft Moderation of Visual Misleading Information on Twitter". We combine perceptual hashing, vector databases, and OCR in a scalable and efficient pipeline to flag image-based misinformation on social media. seclab.bu.edu/people/gianl...
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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 04/10/2023
Later this month my student Cici Ling will present our work on studying image-based COVID misinformation on Twitter at CSCW 2023. She will be on the faculty job market this year, make sure to talk to her if you are hiring! You can read our paper here: seclab.bu.edu/people/gianl...
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