Publications

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Conference Papers

From Reports to Insights: Challenges and Opportunities in Citizen-Driven Malicious Website Datasets

Daan Vansteenhuyse, Hadji Musaev and Lieven Desmet

We study a regional user-reported dataset comprised of suspicious websites and investigate the use of topic modeling as a cybercrime analysis tool.

Published in 8th Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb 2026) , 2026

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One Does Not Simply Score a Website: Evaluating Website Security Scoring Algorithms

Daan Vansteenhuyse, Victor Le Pochat, Gertjan Franken and Lieven Desmet

We evaluated and compared different security scoring algorithms showing among others the lack of agreement between those algorithms and the possibility of inflating security scores.

Published in 10th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC 2025) , 2025

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