Publications

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

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2025

Sharad Agarwal, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Marie Vasek
An Overview of 7726 User Reports: Uncovering SMS Scams and Scammer Strategies
Under Submission.
[Arxiv Version]

Sharad Agarwal, Antonis Papasavva, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Marie Vasek
Fishing for Smishing: Understanding SMS Phishing Infrastructure and Strategies by Mining Public User Reports
Accepted at ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2025 (IMC’25).
[Accepted Version] [Dataset] [Published Paper] [Industry Mention]

Sharad Agarwal, Marie Vasek
Card-Not-Present Fraud resulting from Smishing Attacks: An Experimental Study
Accepted at the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW’25).
[Accepted Version] [Published Paper]

Sharad Agarwal, Marie Vasek
Examining Newly Registered Phishing Domains at Scale
Accepted for Rump Session at the 24th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS’25).
Updated version published at the Journal of Cybersecurity 2026 Vol. 12 Issue 1 (JCS’26).
[Published Version at JCS] [WEIS Paper] [Presentation] [Industry Mention]

Sharad Agarwal, Emma Harvey, Enrico Mariconti, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Marie Vasek
‘Hey mum, I dropped my phone down the toilet’: Investigating Hi Mum and Dad SMS Scams in the United Kingdom
Accepted at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security’25).
[Published Paper] [Accepted Version] [Talk] [Poster] [Industry Mention] [News Mention]

2024

Sharad Agarwal, Emma Harvey, Marie Vasek
Poster: A Comprehensive Categorization of SMS Scams
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC’24).
[Published Paper] [Poster] [News Mention]

2023

Sharad Agarwal, Gilberto Atondo Siu, Marilyne Ordekian, Alice Hutchings, Enrico Mariconti, Marie Vasek
Short paper: DeFi Deception — Uncovering the prevalence of rugpulls in cryptocurrency projects
International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC’23)
[Preprint] [Presentation] [Published Paper] [Dataset] [Blog]

2022

Sharad Agarwal, Awais Rashid, Joseph Gardiner
Old MacDonald had a smart farm: Building a testbed to study cybersecurity in smart dairy farming
15th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop (CSET’22)
[Paper] [Presentation] [Talk]

Sharad Agarwal, Marie Vasek
Investigating the concentration of High Yield Investment Programs in the United Kingdom
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW - WACCO’22)
[Paper] [Preprint] [Dataset] [Talk] [News Mention]

2019

Sharad Agarwal, Pascal Oser, Stefan Lueders
Detecting IoT Devices and How They Put Large Heterogeneous Networks at Security Risk
Sensors MDPI, Volume 19, Issue 19, Pages 4107
[Paper] [Presentation] [Talk]

Other Publications

2017

Sharad Agarwal, Pascal Oser, Hannah Short, Stefan Lueders
Internet of Things (IoT) Security
[Report] [Youtube]

Poster Presentations

2021

Sharad Agarwal, Awais Rashid, Joseph Gardiner, Barnaby Craggs
Cybersecurity for Food Security (CyFoo)
PETRAS Securing the Future, Nov 2021
[Poster] [News Mention] [Talk]