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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.

Quantifying the impact of the Twitter fake accounts purge - a technical analysis

Attacks against machine learning — an overview

How to handle mistakes while using AI to block attacks

Selected Blog posts

Challenges faced while training an AI to combat abuse

Blog post - Apr 2018

Why AI is the key to robust anti-abuse defenses

Blog post - Apr 2018

Taking down Gooligan part 3 — monetization and clean-up

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

How to successfully harness AI to combat fraud and abuse

Talk - RSA 2018

Hunting down Gooligan — retrospective analysis

Talk - Botconf 2017

Attacking encrypted USB keys the hard(ware) way

Talk - Black Hat 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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