publications

*Joint first authors with equal contribution, ordered alphabetically.

2026

  1. USENIX’26
    Stayin’ Alive: How Global Stolen Data Markets Thrive on Telegram
    Tina Marjanov, Taro Tsuchiya, Konstantinos Ioannidis, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security’26), 2026
    PDF Poster Slides
  2. ICWSM’26
    A Large-Scale Study of Telegram Bots
    Taro Tsuchiya, Haoxiang Yu, Tina Marjanov, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’26), 2026
    PDF Code Dataset
  3. CCS’26
    Meme Coin Factories: Uncovering Large-Scale Manipulations on pump.fun.
    Nicolas Szwajcok*, Taro Tsuchiya*, Enze Liu, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’26), 2026
    PDF Dataset

2025

  1. SIGMETRICS’25
    Blockchain Amplification Attack
    Taro Tsuchiya, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (SIGMETRICS’25), 2025
    PDF Code
  2. USENIX’25
    Blockchain Address Poisoning
    Taro Tsuchiya, Jin-Dong Dong, Kyle Soska, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security’25), 2025
    PDF Dataset

2024

  1. WWW’24
    Blockchain Censorship
    Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, and 8 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW’24), 2024
    PDF
  2. WWW’24
    Identifying Risky Vendors in Cryptocurrency P2P Marketplaces
    Taro Tsuchiya, Alejandro Cuevas, and Nicolas Christin
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW’24), 2024
    PDF Poster

2023

  1. WWW’23
    Misbehavior and Account Suspension in an Online Financial Communication Platform
    Taro Tsuchiya, Alejandro Cuevas, Thomas Magelinski, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW’23), 2023
    PDF Slides

2021

  1. Digital Finance
    Profitability of cryptocurrency Pump and Dump schemes
    Taro Tsuchiya
    Digital Finance, 2021
    PDF Code

Media Coverage

My work has been featured in 15+ media outlets. Selected articles below.

  • Cointelegraph “Crypto investor loses $2.6M in stablecoins in double phishing scam”
  • Etherscan “Address Poisoning Attacks Are Rising on Ethereum”
  • CCN “Address Poisoning in Crypto: What It Is and How to Defend Against It”
  • Cryptonomist “Hack on-chain: Bitcoin wins over Ethereum and Binance (BNB Chain)”
  • Cylab “CyLab study uncovers 270 million crypto phishing attempts”
  • University of Cambridge Press “Stayin' Alive: How Global Stolen Data Markets Thrive on Telegram”