About Me
I am a 4th-year PhD student at the Security and Privacy Research Lab. My research focuses on developing innovative strategies to detect and counteract online scams (such as social engineering attacks) across various platforms.Currently, I am developing FreePhish, a real-time anti-phishing blocklist and online scanner aimed at improving the detection of emerging attacks that target both regular and decentralized ecosystems.
Recent News
April 2024: Presented a talk on "Abusing Large Language Models to generate Social Engineering Attacks" at the US Communications Sector Coordinating Council.March 2024: Our paper "Understanding the Ripple Effects: Users’ Behavioral and Emotional Response to Toxicity in Twitter Conversations" was accepted at ICWSM 2024. Congrats Ana!March 2024: Our paper on "From Chatbots to Phishbots?": Phishing Scam Generation in Commercial Large Language Models got accepted to IEEE S&P 2024.February 2024: Organized the PhishLLM workshop which received the runner-up award at OurCS '24!October 2023: Awarded Most Impact Talk at the 50th Anniversary of Computing at UTA for “A Study of Phishing Attacks Created using Free Website Building Services”.August 2023: Our paper “Phishing in the Free Waters: A Study of Phishing Attacks Created using Free Website Building Services” got accepted at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2023.June 2023: I passed my PhD. Comprehensive exam :))May 2023: Our paper on "Unveiling the Risks of NFT Promotion Scams" was accepted at ICWSM 2024!May 2023: Attended the World Wide Web Conference!February 2023:Awarded the Best Talk Award at the Student Computing Research Festival for “Characterizing and Mitigating NFT Phishing Scams”.December 2022: I am on UTA News!September 2022: Started contributing data to the Anti-phishing Working Group as part of the Social ThreatFinder project.July 2022: Awarded the CSE Outstanding Lab Service in recognition of performance
in leading major projects, offering mentorship to emerging researchers, at the Security and Privacy Research Lab!May 2022: Won the John S.Schuchman Outstanding Doctoral Student Award!April 2022: STEM Fellowship by Comcast for “Using Social Media as a Novel Source for Identifying Active Phishing Threats.” and developing Social ThreatFinder.March 2022: Looking forward to my Summer Internship with SecLab at UC Santa Barbara!February 2022: Our workshop "ThreatFinder ft. Twitter" won the Best Project Award at OurCS@DFW!
Contact me
Feel free to reach out to me at sayak.saharoy@mavs.uta.edu or use the contact form below.
Publications
"From Chatbots to Phishbots?": Phishing Scam Generation in Commercial Large Language Models
Sayak Saha Roy, Poojitha Thota, Krishna Vamsi Naragam, Shirin Nilizadeh
To appear at the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2024)
Understanding the Ripple Effects: Users’ Behavioral and Emotional Response to Toxicity in Twitter Conversations
Ana Aleksandric, Sayak Saha Roy, Hanani Pankaj, Gabriela Mustata Wilson, Shirin Nilizadeh
To appear at The 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2024)
Phishing in the Free Waters: A Study of Phishing Attacks Created using Free Website Building Services
Sayak Saha Roy, Unique Karanjit, Shirin Nilizadeh
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2023
Unveiling the Risks of NFT Promotion Scams
Sayak Saha Roy, Dipanjan Das, Priyanka Bose, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Shirin Nilizadeh
To appear at The 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2024)
(Best Paper Award) Evaluating the Effectiveness of Phishing Reports on Twitter
Sayak Saha Roy, Unique Karanjit and Shirin Nilizadeh
2021 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)
What Remains Uncaught?: Characterizing Sparsely Detected Malicious URLs on Twitter
Sayak Saha Roy, Unique Karanjit and Shirin Nilizadeh
Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb) 2021
Work in progress/Preprints
Exploring Gender-Based Toxic Speech on Twitter in Context of the# MeToo movement: A Mixed Methods Approach
Sayak Saha Roy, Ohad Gilbar, Christina Palantza, Maxine Davis, Shirin Nilizadeh
Under submission
Generating Phishing Attacks using ChatGPT
Sayak Saha Roy, Krishna Vamsi Naragam, Shirin Nilizadeh
User Engagement and the Toxicity of Tweets
Nazanin Salehabadi, Anne Groggel, Mohit Singhal, Sayak Saha Roy, Shirin Nilizadeh
News
March 2024: Our paper on "From Chatbots to Phishbots?": Phishing Scam Generation in Commercial Large Language Models got accepted to IEEE S&P 2024.
February 2024: Organized the PhishLLM workshop which received the runner-up award at OurCS '24!
October 2023: Awarded Most Impact Talk at the 50th Anniversary of Computing at UTA for “A Study of Phishing Attacks Created using Free Website Building Services”.
August 2023: Our paper “Phishing in the Free Waters: A Study of Phishing Attacks Created using Free Website Building Services” got accepted at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2023.
June 2023: I passed my PhD. Comprehensive exam :))
May 2023: Our paper on "Unveiling the Risks of NFT Promotion Scams" was accepted at ICWSM 2024!
May 2023: Attended the World Wide Web Conference!
February 2023:Awarded the Best Talk Award at the Student Computing Research Festival for “Characterizing and Mitigating NFT Phishing Scams”.
December 2022: I am on UTA News!
September 2022: Started contributing data to the Anti-phishing Working Group as part of the Social ThreatFinder project.
July 2022: Awarded the CSE Outstanding Lab Service in recognition of outstanding performance
in leading major projects, offering mentorship to emerging researchers, at the Security and Privacy Research Lab!
May 2022: Won the John S.Schuchman Outstanding Doctoral Student Award!
April 2022: STEM Fellowship by Comcast for “Using Social Media as a Novel Source for Identifying Active Phishing Threats.” and developing Social ThreatFinder.
March 2022: Looking forward to my Summer Internship with SecLab at UC Santa Barbara!
February 2022: Our workshop "ThreatFinder ft. Twitter" won the Best Project Award at OurCS@DFW!
January 2022: Co-organizing a workshop "Threat Finder ft. Twitter: Visualizing a Real-Time Security Knowledge base Using Twitter Data" at OurCS@DFW!
Decembter 2021: Our work on using Twitter as an Anti-phishing knowledgebase got covered by 5 media venues, including Yahoo and Security Boulevard!
Decembter 2021: We won the Best Paper Award at APWG eCrime 2021 for “Evaluating the effectiveness of Phishing Reporters on Twitter”.
Decembter 2021: Our paper on Evaluating the effectiveness of Phishing Reports on Twitter got accepted to APWG eCrime 2021.
April 2021: Recipient of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Award (International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines) for Outstanding Academic Performance for the 2020 academic year.