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Elie Bursztein

Elie leads Google's anti-abuse research team, which invents ways to protect users against cyber-criminal activities and Internet threats.

Challenges faced while training an AI to combat abuse

How to successfully harness AI to combat fraud and abuse

Why AI is the key to robust anti-abuse defenses

Selected Blog posts

Taking down Gooligan part 3 — monetization and clean-up

Blog post - Mar 2018

Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Blog post - Mar 2018

Taking down Gooligan: part 1 — overview

Blog post - Mar 2018

Selected Publications

Tracking desktop ransomware payments end to end

Publication - S&P 2018

Three years of the Right to be Forgotten

Publication - Feb 2018

Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Publication - CCS 2017

Selected Talks

Hunting down Gooligan — retrospective analysis

Talk - Botconf 2017

Attacking encrypted USB keys the hard(ware) way

Talk - Black Hat USA 2017

Tracking desktop ransomware payments end to end

Talk - BH USA 2017

Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Publication - CCS 2017

Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps

Publication - WWW 2017

Picasso: Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting for Web Clients

Publication - SPSM 2016

Attacking encrypted USB keys the hard(ware) way

Talk - Black Hat USA 2017

Bad beat: practical attacks against poker cheating devices

Blog post - Mar 2017

Royal flush: an in-depth look at poker cheating devices accessories

Blog post - Nov 2016

Understanding the prevalence of web traffic interception

Blog post - Jun 2017

Learn web security with Google

The Security Impact of HTTPS Interception

Publication - NDSS 2017

I am a legend hacking hearthstone using statistical learning methods

Publication - CIG 2016

Predicting Hearthstone game outcome with machine learning

Blog post - Oct 2016

Hearthstone 3d card viewer in pure javascript/css3

Blog post - Apr 2015

Understanding how people use private browsing

Blog post - Jul 2017

Using big data to understand users' privacy concerns

Blog post - May 2014

Cloak and swagger: understanding data sensitivity through the lens of user anonymity

Publication - S&P 2014

Tracking desktop ransomware payments end to end

Publication - S&P 2018

Unmasking the ransomware kingpins

Blog post - Oct 2017

Exposing the inner-workings of the ransomware economy

Blog post - Sep 2017

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