Sharad Agarwal
@shad1126.bsky.social
Cybercrime Researcher | PhD Candidate @uclcs @ucl | Product Analyst @StopScamsUK | Created http://csphdfellowships.org | Prev @BristolCyberSec @CMSExperiment @CERN @CERNopenlab
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Sharad Agarwal
@shad1126.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Looking forward to presenting our paper on “Hi mum and dad” SMS scams next week #USENIXSecurity in Seattle! If you are attending #USENIX25, come to the Fraud, Malware and Spam track on 14th Aug! @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @imdeainstitutes.bsky.social #StopScamsUK #onlinefraud #scams #cybercrime
August 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Looking forward to presenting our paper on “Hi mum and dad” SMS scams next week #USENIXSecurity in Seattle! If you are attending #USENIX25, come to the Fraud, Malware and Spam track on 14th Aug! @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @imdeainstitutes.bsky.social #StopScamsUK #onlinefraud #scams #cybercrime
Looking forward to presenting my PhD research on #smishing and #smsscams on July 4th, 2025 in Vienna at TU Wien! Thanks to Dr Daniel Arp for the invite. @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk #StopScamsUK #scams #onlinefraud
July 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Looking forward to presenting my PhD research on #smishing and #smsscams on July 4th, 2025 in Vienna at TU Wien! Thanks to Dr Daniel Arp for the invite. @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk #StopScamsUK #scams #onlinefraud
📣I will be presenting our paper on analyzing newly registered phishing domains that criminals abuse to conduct #smishing 📱in Tokyo next week at #WEIS2025!
Full paper: sharad1126.github.io/files/WEIS25_A…
Conference: http://kmlabcw.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/weis/2025/
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
Full paper: sharad1126.github.io/files/WEIS25_A…
Conference: http://kmlabcw.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/weis/2025/
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
June 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
📣I will be presenting our paper on analyzing newly registered phishing domains that criminals abuse to conduct #smishing 📱in Tokyo next week at #WEIS2025!
Full paper: sharad1126.github.io/files/WEIS25_A…
Conference: http://kmlabcw.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/weis/2025/
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
Full paper: sharad1126.github.io/files/WEIS25_A…
Conference: http://kmlabcw.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/weis/2025/
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
📣📱💳 Our paper titled "Card-Not-Present Fraud resulting from Smishing Attacks: An Experimental Study" was accepted at NSPW 2025! Looking forward to a great discussion. #CNPfraud #smscams #scams #smishing #onlinefraud #StopScamsUK #NSPW25 @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
📣📱💳 Our paper titled "Card-Not-Present Fraud resulting from Smishing Attacks: An Experimental Study" was accepted at NSPW 2025! Looking forward to a great discussion. #CNPfraud #smscams #scams #smishing #onlinefraud #StopScamsUK #NSPW25 @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
It was a pleasure to present our #smishing honeypot for the first time at #Honeynet2025! Thanks to the @stratosphereips.bsky.social team for organising a great event! @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
Next at #Honeynet2025, Sharad Agarwal presents:
📲 “Staying Up-to-Date with SMS Scams: Building a Smishing Honeypot”
📲 “Staying Up-to-Date with SMS Scams: Building a Smishing Honeypot”
June 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
It was a pleasure to present our #smishing honeypot for the first time at #Honeynet2025! Thanks to the @stratosphereips.bsky.social team for organising a great event! @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
Reposted by Sharad Agarwal
🚨 The wait is over — the full program of briefings for the Honeynet Project Workshop 2025 in Prague is now live! 🎉
📍 NTK, Prague
🗓 June 2–4, 2025
👉 Register today: prague2025.honeynet.org/program/
#honeynet2025 #cybersecurity #infosec #deception #cyberdeception #TI #TTPs #Malware
📍 NTK, Prague
🗓 June 2–4, 2025
👉 Register today: prague2025.honeynet.org/program/
#honeynet2025 #cybersecurity #infosec #deception #cyberdeception #TI #TTPs #Malware
May 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🚨 The wait is over — the full program of briefings for the Honeynet Project Workshop 2025 in Prague is now live! 🎉
📍 NTK, Prague
🗓 June 2–4, 2025
👉 Register today: prague2025.honeynet.org/program/
#honeynet2025 #cybersecurity #infosec #deception #cyberdeception #TI #TTPs #Malware
📍 NTK, Prague
🗓 June 2–4, 2025
👉 Register today: prague2025.honeynet.org/program/
#honeynet2025 #cybersecurity #infosec #deception #cyberdeception #TI #TTPs #Malware
Looking forward to showcasing our #smishing honeypot and presenting some very interesting results as case studies at The Honeynet Project’s Annual Workshop 2025 in Prague!
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @stratosphereips.bsky.social #smsscams #onlinefraud #honeypots
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @stratosphereips.bsky.social #smsscams #onlinefraud #honeypots
📱 Can honeypots keep pace with next-gen smishing?
We’re excited to welcome Sharad Agarwal to #Honeynet2025 in Prague to present Staying Up-to-Date with SMS Scams — showcasing a honeypot catching real-world scams across SMS, RCS, and iMessage.
📅 June 2–4, 2025
🔗 prague2025.honeynet.org
We’re excited to welcome Sharad Agarwal to #Honeynet2025 in Prague to present Staying Up-to-Date with SMS Scams — showcasing a honeypot catching real-world scams across SMS, RCS, and iMessage.
📅 June 2–4, 2025
🔗 prague2025.honeynet.org
May 2, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Looking forward to showcasing our #smishing honeypot and presenting some very interesting results as case studies at The Honeynet Project’s Annual Workshop 2025 in Prague!
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @stratosphereips.bsky.social #smsscams #onlinefraud #honeypots
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @stratosphereips.bsky.social #smsscams #onlinefraud #honeypots
Interested in honeypots? Or SMS Phishing? I’ll be presenting our #smishing honeypot📱at The Honeynet Project Annual Workshop 2025 in Prague on 2nd June!
🔗 prague2025.honeynet.org/program
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk #scams #honeypots
🔗 prague2025.honeynet.org/program
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk #scams #honeypots
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Interested in honeypots? Or SMS Phishing? I’ll be presenting our #smishing honeypot📱at The Honeynet Project Annual Workshop 2025 in Prague on 2nd June!
🔗 prague2025.honeynet.org/program
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk #scams #honeypots
🔗 prague2025.honeynet.org/program
@sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk #scams #honeypots
Reposted by Sharad Agarwal
Three #scam calls hitting #UK today:
1) "Solar rebates program" #phishing call, trying to get you to share info about property/personal circumstances, by claiming they can get you discounted solar panels. Probably going to pass on to other scammers or use themselves in future.
1) "Solar rebates program" #phishing call, trying to get you to share info about property/personal circumstances, by claiming they can get you discounted solar panels. Probably going to pass on to other scammers or use themselves in future.
April 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🔔🚨The results from our work on categorization of #SMSscams published at #IMC2024 and the upcoming paper on “Hi Mum and Dad” SMS scams at #USENIXSecurity are published in today’s article @thetimes.com by @yennahsmart.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/business-mon... #StopScamsUK #scams @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk
‘Hi Mum and Dad’ … inside the emotive text scam
Fraudsters are posing as vulnerable children to trick parents out of thousands of pounds — but the police and phone companies are playing catch-up
www.thetimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
🔔🚨The results from our work on categorization of #SMSscams published at #IMC2024 and the upcoming paper on “Hi Mum and Dad” SMS scams at #USENIXSecurity are published in today’s article @thetimes.com by @yennahsmart.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/business-mon... #StopScamsUK #scams @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Live data sharing is crucial in the fight against scams. Check out how we and our members are committed on sharing intelligence data to stop scams at source! #StopScamsUK @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/12bb...
www.ft.com/content/12bb...
Banks and tech groups commit to live data-sharing in UK fraud clampdown
Industry-led initiative promises to beat existing scam-monitoring systems
www.ft.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Live data sharing is crucial in the fight against scams. Check out how we and our members are committed on sharing intelligence data to stop scams at source! #StopScamsUK @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/12bb...
www.ft.com/content/12bb...
Criminals have been abusing newly registered domains towards SMS phishing #smishing. Our research empirically investigates the abuse of over 15k newly registered phishing domains using @spamhaustech.bsky.social @spamhaus.bsky.social passive DNS. @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk www.spamhaus.com/resource-cen...
Supporting researchers: How Passive DNS enabled a study into abuse of newly registered domains for phishing - Spamhaus Technology
UCL researchers use Spamhaus' Passive DNS to investigate domains abuse - read on to learn more.
www.spamhaus.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Criminals have been abusing newly registered domains towards SMS phishing #smishing. Our research empirically investigates the abuse of over 15k newly registered phishing domains using @spamhaustech.bsky.social @spamhaus.bsky.social passive DNS. @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk www.spamhaus.com/resource-cen...
It’s always exciting to see your research making an impact and being referred by industry stakeholders. Our “Hi Mum and Dad” SMS scam paper set to appear @ #USENIXSecurity, has been referred by @phonely.bsky.social in their latest blog article on #himum #scams! www.phonely.co.uk/blogs/guides...
The Startling Mum and Dad Scam: Parental Emotions Targeted
Discover the Mum & Dad scam targeting UK parents & grandparents & spot the warning signs.
www.phonely.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s always exciting to see your research making an impact and being referred by industry stakeholders. Our “Hi Mum and Dad” SMS scam paper set to appear @ #USENIXSecurity, has been referred by @phonely.bsky.social in their latest blog article on #himum #scams! www.phonely.co.uk/blogs/guides...
Based on our research, we submitted a response to @ofcom.bsky.social’s consultation on reducing messaging scams which is now available at www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-b... @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
Call for input: Reducing mobile messaging scams
This Call for input covers Short Message Service (SMS) and Rich Communications Services (RCS). Both require a user’s mobile telephone number in order to deliver a message over the mobile network and t...
www.ofcom.org.uk
January 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Based on our research, we submitted a response to @ofcom.bsky.social’s consultation on reducing messaging scams which is now available at www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-b... @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
Wishing you all a very #happynewyear2025
December 31, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Wishing you all a very #happynewyear2025
Merry Christmas 🎄
December 25, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Merry Christmas 🎄
Managed to listen to Tom Bloomfield at Imperial today and got to know his story from Oxford to building @monzobank.bsky.social and going to @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy! Take risks and build what you’d use.
November 26, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Managed to listen to Tom Bloomfield at Imperial today and got to know his story from Oxford to building @monzobank.bsky.social and going to @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy! Take risks and build what you’d use.
Reposted by Sharad Agarwal
"The McAfee mobile research team recently identified a significant global increase of SpyLoan, also known as predatory loan apps, on Android"
www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-...
www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-...
November 25, 2024 at 2:25 PM
"The McAfee mobile research team recently identified a significant global increase of SpyLoan, also known as predatory loan apps, on Android"
www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-...
www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-...
Last weekend, #StopScamsUK was featured on the #BTTower supporting the #ScamSafe week along with the #BBCNews! Not everyday your organisation gets on the BT Tower. Stay Scam Safe!
November 25, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Last weekend, #StopScamsUK was featured on the #BTTower supporting the #ScamSafe week along with the #BBCNews! Not everyday your organisation gets on the BT Tower. Stay Scam Safe!