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Jul 23, 2024·arXiv (Cornell University)
10 cites
Utilizing Blockchain and Smart Contracts for Enhanced Fraud Prevention and Minimization in Health Insurance through Multi-Signature Claim Processing

Al Amin, Rushabh Shah, Hemanth Tummala, Indrajit Ray

Healthcare insurance provides financial support to access medical services for patients while ensuring timely and guaranteed payment for providers. Insurance fraud poses a significant challenge to insurance companies and policyholders, leading to increased costs and compromised healthcare treatment and service delivery. Most frauds, like phantom billing, upcoding, and unbundling, happen due to the lack of required entity participation. Also, claim activities are not transparent and accountable. Fraud can be prevented and minimized by involving every entity and making actions transparent and accountable. This paper proposes a blockchain-powered smart contract-based insurance claim processing mechanism to prevent and minimize fraud in response to this prevailing issue. All entities-patients, providers, and insurance companies-actively participate in the claim submission, approval, and acknowledgment process through a multi-signature technique. Also, every activity is captured and recorded in the blockchain using smart contracts to make every action transparent and accountable so that no entity can deny its actions and responsibilities. Blockchains' immutable storage property and strong integrity guarantee that recorded activities are not modified. As healthcare systems and insurance companies continue to deal with fraud challenges, this proposed approach holds the potential to significantly reduce fraudulent activities, ultimately benefiting both insurers and policyholders. The average gas costs for smart contract deployment, claim submission, and multi-signature for the Ethereum network: $80.22, $20.60, and $6.47, and for the Optimism network: $0.35, $0.089, and $0.028. They are feasible for the proposed approach.

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Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
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Jul 20, 2024·arXiv (Cornell University)
2 cites
Retrieval Augmented Generation Integrated Large Language Models in Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection

Jeffy Yu

The rapid growth of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has been accompanied by substantial financial losses due to smart contract vulnerabilities, underscoring the critical need for effective security auditing. With attacks becoming more frequent, the necessity and demand for auditing services has escalated. This especially creates a financial burden for independent developers and small businesses, who often have limited available funding for these services. Our study builds upon existing frameworks by integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs), specifically employing GPT-4-1106 for its 128k token context window. We construct a vector store of 830 known vulnerable contracts, leveraging Pinecone for vector storage, OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002 for embeddings, and LangChain to construct the RAG-LLM pipeline. Prompts were designed to provide a binary answer for vulnerability detection. We first test 52 smart contracts 40 times each against a provided vulnerability type, verifying the replicability and consistency of the RAG-LLM. Encouraging results were observed, with a 62.7% success rate in guided detection of vulnerabilities. Second, we challenge the model under a "blind" audit setup, without the vulnerability type provided in the prompt, wherein 219 contracts undergo 40 tests each. This setup evaluates the general vulnerability detection capabilities without hinted context assistance. Under these conditions, a 60.71% success rate was observed. While the results are promising, we still emphasize the need for human auditing at this time. We provide this study as a proof of concept for a cost-effective smart contract auditing process, moving towards democratic access to security.

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cs.CR
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Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
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Jul 19, 2024·2024 IEEE International Conference on Smart Power Control and Renewable Energy (ICSPCRE)
4 cites
Healthcare Insurance Fraud Detection Powered by Blockchain and Machine Learning: An Analysis and Framework

K Shruthi, A.S. Poornima, D. Eswari Ankitha, R. Srilakshmi · 5 authors

Targeting the increasing incident of fraudulent ac-tivities in health care claims processing, this article introduces Machine Learning (ML) with blockchain technology The im-mediate importance of this effort is to improve the security and reliability of the medical claims process to support the equitable and efficient distribution of funds. The main objective of this research is to develop and implement fraud detection and prevention operations using the machine learning algorithms and blockchain technology. Through the integration of these two technologies, our efforts to create a private and protective environment for the processing of medical data reduce the risk of fraud. Our approach is based on the integration of the Ethereum blockchain to increase the power of complex machine learning models. Regarding the use of blockchain, we use Ganache as a private blockchain built by Ethereum, powered by Pinata service to securely store data. We also use machine learning models to analyze personal insurance practices and identify potential fraud. This amalgamation of technologies heralds a paradigm shift in fraud detection and prevention, fostering the preservation of healthcare data integrity and equitable allocation of resources while ensuring minimal losses for insurance companies.

Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
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Jul 14, 2024·Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion
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Enhancing Fault Detection in Smart Contract Loops Through Adaptive Probabilistic Sampling

Stuart D. Semujju, Fangqing Liu, Han Huang, Yi Xiang

Smart contracts are programs that reside on a block-chain. A key feature of smart contracts is their immutability, meaning that they cannot be modified once they are deployed. Despite existing efforts to uncover vulnerabilities, a common assumption is that loop structures rarely occur in smart contracts. Traditional search-based algorithms encounter challenges in uniform exploration, particularly in complex control flow paths where certain paths are more critical than others for fault detection. To overcome this challenge, we propose an adaptive probabilistic sampling strategy that allows for targeted exploration of critical paths. The proposed adaptive probabilistic sampling strategy empowers search-based algorithms to select individuals covering paths with defects. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed adaptive probabilistic sampling strategy in ensuring targeted exploration of critical paths within smart contract loops and enhanced mutant-killing capabilities when combined with search-based algorithms.

Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
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Jul 2, 2024·2024 IEEE 48th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
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Validating Smart Contracts Using GPT Assistant

Xianhao Zhang, Zhiyuan Wei, Jing Sun, Zijian Zhang · 5 authors

This paper presents SCareGPT, an advanced smart contract auditing tool that harnesses domain-specific GPT Assistant technology to enhance vulnerability detection and analysis. We created a standardized dataset featuring 100 labeled vulnera-ble smart contracts and performed comparative benchmarks between SCareGPT and ten traditional smart contract vulnerability detection tools. Our findings demonstrate that SCareGPT excels beyond these competitors in the majority of assessed vulnerability categories, affirming its superiority and utility in the rapidly evolving domain of smart contract security.

Impact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
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Jul 2, 2024·Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure
2 cites
Anomaly Detection in Bitcoin Network: Using Distance-based and Tree-based Unsupervised Learning Methods

Yossapol Witayanont, Waraporn Viyanon

Anomaly detection in the financial system has been studied for decades. Anomalies refer to irregular items or events that are different from the majority. Therefore, illegal activities are anomalous by nature because it is opposed to the norm. Preventive actions like anomalous detection play an important role in avoiding incidents that damage people's property. In this paper, the Bitcoin network is the subject of the study. We consider the effectiveness of two unsupervised learning algorithms, Histogram-based Outlier Score (HBOS) and Isolation Forest, for detecting anomalous transactions and wallet addresses. Providing insights into the strengths and weaknesses of HBOS and Isolation Forest for anomaly detection. We also analyze which features are the most important for each algorithm in identifying anomalies. The result shows similar detection for both algorithms. While HBOS has higher wallet visualization score at 0.423, Isolation Forest yields better scores on transaction visualization, dual, and known-thieves evaluations with score of 0.713, 0.681, and 0.035, respectively.

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Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
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Jul 1, 2024·Journal of Medical Internet Research
8 cites
Automatic Recommender System of Development Platforms for Smart Contract–Based Health Care Insurance Fraud Detection Solutions: Taxonomy and Performance Evaluation

Rima Kaafarani, Leila Ismail, Oussama Zahwe

BACKGROUND: Health care insurance fraud is on the rise in many ways, such as falsifying information and hiding third-party liability. This can result in significant losses for the medical health insurance industry. Consequently, fraud detection is crucial. Currently, companies employ auditors who manually evaluate records and pinpoint fraud. However, an automated and effective method is needed to detect fraud with the continually increasing number of patients seeking health insurance. Blockchain is an emerging technology and is constantly evolving to meet business needs. With its characteristics of immutability, transparency, traceability, and smart contracts, it demonstrates its potential in the health care domain. In particular, self-executable smart contracts are essential to reduce the costs associated with traditional paradigms, which are mostly manual, while preserving privacy and building trust among health care stakeholders, including the patient and the health insurance networks. However, with the proliferation of blockchain development platform options, selecting the right one for health care insurance can be difficult. This study addressed this void and developed an automated decision map recommender system to select the most effective blockchain platform for insurance fraud detection. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to develop smart contracts for detecting health care insurance fraud efficiently. Therefore, we provided a taxonomy of fraud scenarios and implemented their detection using a blockchain platform that was suitable for health care insurance fraud detection. To automatically and efficiently select the best platform, we proposed and implemented a decision map-based recommender system. For developing the decision-map, we proposed a taxonomy of 102 blockchain platforms. METHODS: We developed smart contracts for 12 fraud scenarios that we identified in the literature. We used the top 2 blockchain platforms selected by our proposed decision-making map-based recommender system, which is tailored for health care insurance fraud. The map used our taxonomy of 102 blockchain platforms classified according to their application domains. RESULTS: The recommender system demonstrated that Hyperledger Fabric was the best blockchain platform for identifying health care insurance fraud. We validated our recommender system by comparing the performance of the top 2 platforms selected by our system. The blockchain platform taxonomy that we created revealed that 59 blockchain platforms are suitable for all application domains, 25 are suitable for financial services, and 18 are suitable for various application domains. We implemented fraud detection based on smart contracts. CONCLUSIONS: Our decision map recommender system, which was based on our proposed taxonomy of 102 platforms, automatically selected the top 2 platforms, which were Hyperledger Fabric and Neo, for the implementation of health care insurance fraud detection. Our performance evaluation of the 2 platforms indicated that Fabric surpassed Neo in all performance metrics, as depicted by our recommender system. We provided an implementation of fraud detection based on smart contracts.

Open access
2 source records
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
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Jun 29, 2024·2024 First International Conference on Technological Innovations and Advance Computing (TIACOMP)
2 cites
Tracing Transaction Across Bitcoin Address Behaviour for Pattern Analysis

Ankita Parihar, Amit Kumar, Abhishek Kumar

Internet introduce modern digital currencies which have evolved from our fiat currencies. As the world faced a recession driven by centralized assets, an evolution took place. Additionally, banks charged negative interests on tangible property. When money was in danger, the Internet provided a solution that altered the global system of currency control. Bitcoin the pioneering cryptocurrency that has revolutionized digital finance. An n unchangeable record of every transaction is kept through the use of blockchain technology in it. The public disclosure of a cryptocurrency's whole the formation and transaction history fosters user confidence. People on the Bitcoin network deal with one another using anonymous Bitcoin addresses, never disclosing their true identities. To optimize their privacy and convenience, individuals frequently utilize many distinct email addresses. In this study it also examines academic literature to understand the various uses of Bitcoin. A comprehensive review of existing research is conducted to detail the characteristics and applications of Bitcoin. The paper utilizes primary information from scholarly articles and secondary data from publicly accessible case studies that are relevant to the topic. Beyond developing Bitcoin faces several challenges, including regulatory uncertainty, scalability issues. Although its initial appearance seemed to indicate hope for a better future, now it is hard to predict how bitcoin will emerge.

Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Spam and Phishing Detection
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Jun 28, 2024·2024 IEEE 11th International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud)
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Hypeleger Fabric Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Technology: An Overview

Donghan Chen, Junxiong Lin, Shaohua Zhang, Yu Liu · 5 authors

Smart contracts are one of the most successful applications of blockchain technology, providing the foundation for a wide range of real-world blockchain applications and occupying a crucial position within the blockchain ecosystem. Hyperledger Fabric, as a influential permissoned blockchain system, warrants in-depth research into the security of its smart contracts. This paper begins by elucidating the sources of security threats to Hyperledger Fabric smart contracts, detailing specific security threats in terms of language inconsistency, external inconsistency, read-write logic, and system security. Subsequently, it provides an overview of research progress in smart contract vulnerability detection techniques, covering feature code matching, symbolic execution, fuzz testing, and intermediate code representation. Based on existing work, it summarizes current methods for detection and evaluation. Finally, drawing upon the summary of existing research efforts, it discusses the challenges faced and potential avenues for future research in the domain of Hyperledger Fabric smart contract vulnerability detection.Related research also facilitates the extension to other heterogeneous permissioned blockchains.

Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
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Jun 28, 2024·ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
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FunFuzz: A Function-Oriented Fuzzer for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection with High Effectiveness and Efficiency

Mingxi Ye, Yuhong Nan, Hong‐Ning Dai, Shuo Yang · 6 authors

With the increasing popularity of Decentralized Applications (DApps) in blockchain, securing smart contracts has been a long-term, high-priority subject in the domain. Among the various research directions for vulnerability detection, fuzzing has received extensive attention because of its high effectiveness. However, with the increasing complexity of smart contracts, existing fuzzers may waste substantial time exploring locations irrelevant to smart contract vulnerabilities. In this article, we present FunFuzz, a function-oriented fuzzer, which is dedicatedly tailored for detecting smart contract vulnerability with high effectiveness and efficiency. The key observation in our research is that most smart contract vulnerabilities exist in specific functions rather than randomly distributed in all program code like other traditional software. To this end, unlike traditional fuzzers which mainly target code coverage, FunFuzz identifies risky functions while pruning non-risky ones in smart contracts. In this way, it significantly narrows down the exploration scope during the fuzzing process. In addition, FunFuzz employs three unique strategies to direct itself toward effectively discovering vulnerabilities specific to smart contracts (e.g., reentrancy, block dependency, and gasless send). Extensive experiments on 170 real-world contracts demonstrate that FunFuzz outperforms state-of-the-art fuzzers in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.

Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
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Jun 24, 2024·2024 15th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)
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An Intelligent Blockchain based Framework for secured Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Detect Fraudulent Transactions

Nithya Rekha Sivakumar, G. Jagatheeshkumar

Over the course of the past several years, the swift growth and widespread use of cryptocurrencies have altered the face of the financial industry, presenting both opportunities and concerns. Alongside the expansion of cryptocurrency exchanges, there has been a rise in the number of fraudulent activities that take place within these exchanges, notably in networks such as Bitcoin. In this work, we report the findings of an exhaustive examination into the identification of fraudulent transactions within these exchanges, with a primary emphasis on Bitcoin. In order to accurately identify potentially fraudulent transactions, we plan to utilize a variety of Machine Learning (ML) techniques and ensemble techniques. One of these methods is the hard-voted ensemble model, which has been noted for its exceptional 99 percent success rate in previous implementations. In addition, we investigate the possibility of incorporating the hybrid SMOTE data balancing system and LSTM for the processing of time-series and edge-based transactions, which would further improve the efficiency of the model that we have presented. The findings of our research make a significant contribution to the development of strong and interpretable models, which are an essential component in the process of strengthening the integrity and security of the ecosystem of cryptocurrency.

Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
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Jun 20, 2024·Sensors
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Ethereum Phishing Scam Detection Based on Data Augmentation Method and Hybrid Graph Neural Network Model

Zhe Chen, Sheng-Zheng Liu, Jia Huang, Yu-Han Xiu · 6 authors

The rapid advancement of blockchain technology has fueled the prosperity of the cryptocurrency market. Unfortunately, it has also facilitated certain criminal activities, particularly the increasing issue of phishing scams on blockchain platforms such as Ethereum. Consequently, developing an efficient phishing detection system is critical for ensuring the security and reliability of cryptocurrency transactions. However, existing methods have shortcomings in dealing with sample imbalance and effective feature extraction. To address these issues, this study proposes an Ethereum phishing scam detection method based on DA-HGNN (Data Augmentation Method and Hybrid Graph Neural Network Model), validated by real Ethereum datasets to prove its effectiveness. Initially, basic node features consisting of 11 attributes were designed. This study applied a sliding window sampling method based on node transactions for data augmentation. Since phishing nodes often initiate numerous transactions, the augmented samples tended to balance. Subsequently, the Temporal Features Extraction Module employed Conv1D (One-Dimensional Convolutional neural network) and GRU-MHA (GRU-Multi-Head Attention) models to uncover intrinsic relationships between features from the time sequences and to mine adequate local features, culminating in the extraction of temporal features. The GAE (Graph Autoencoder) concept was then leveraged, with SAGEConv (Graph SAGE Convolution) as the encoder. In the SAGEConv reconstruction module, by reconstructing the relationships between transaction graph nodes, the structural features of the nodes were learned, obtaining reconstructed node embedding representations. Ultimately, phishing fraud nodes were further identified by integrating temporal features, basic features, and embedding representations. A real Ethereum dataset was collected for evaluation, and the DA-HGNN model achieved an AUC-ROC (Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve) of 0.994, a Recall of 0.995, and an F1-score of 0.994, outperforming existing methods and baseline models.

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Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Spam and Phishing Detection
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Original source
Jun 17, 2024·Advances in finance, accounting, and economics book series
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Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technology

Nurul Retno Nurwulan

This chapter comprehensively reviews the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology. AI is a machine simulation of human intelligence to create systems that can perform tasks that typically require humans to recognize patterns and solve problems. It has been successfully applied across various sectors such as healthcare, finance, transportation, education, etc. Blockchain technology is a decentralized distributed ledger system that records transactions across networks. Although it gained popularity when Bitcoin was introduced, it can be applied to various sectors such as decentralized finance (DeFi), healthcare, supply chain management, etc. An extensive review of journal articles was conducted to explore the synergies, challenges, and potential research directions of AI and blockchain convergence, especially in the financial sector. The contents of the selected articles were summarized to evaluate the current applications and future research directions were outlined.

Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
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Jun 14, 2024·IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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SmartOracle: Generating Smart Contract Oracle via Fine-Grained Invariant Detection

Jianzhong Su, Jiachi Chen, Zhiyuan Fang, Xingwei Lin · 6 authors

As decentralized applications (DApps) proliferate, the increased complexity and usage of smart contracts have heightened their susceptibility to security incidents and financial losses. Although various vulnerability detection tools have been developed to mitigate these issues, they often suffer poor performance in detecting vulnerabilities, as they either rely on simplistic and general-purpose oracles that may be inadequate for vulnerability detection, or require user-specified oracles, which are labor-intensive to create. In this paper, we introduce SmartOracle, a dynamic invariant detector that automatically generates fine-grained invariants as application-specific oracles for vulnerability detection. From historical transactions, SmartOracle uses pattern-based detection and advanced inference to construct comprehensive properties, and mines multi-layer likely invariants to accommodate the complicated contract functionalities. After that, SmartOracle identifies smart contract vulnerabilities by hunting the violated invariants in new transactions. In the field of invariant detection, SmartOracle detects 50% more ERC20 invariants than existing dynamic invariant detection and achieves 96% precision rate. Furthermore, we build a dataset that contains vulnerable contracts from real-world security incidents. SmartOracle successfully detects 466 abnormal transactions with an acceptable precision rate 96%, involving 31 vulnerable contracts. The experimental results demonstrate its effectiveness in detecting smart contract vulnerabilities, especially those related to complicated contract functionalities.

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Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
cs.SE
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Jun 11, 2024·2024 13th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)
1 cites
Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Using Deep Learning Algorithms on EVM bytecode

Lejdi Prifti, Betim Çiço, D.A. Karras

In the quickly changing world of blockchain technology, it is critical to guarantee the security of the self-executing contracts, written in programming languages like Solidity called smart contracts. Not all security vulnerabilities in smart contracts will be found by human code reviews and security audits using traditional methods. Deep learning networks have become a promising answer to this problem. In this paper, we present the architecture of two models—using convolutional and recurrent neural networks—that are intended to effectively discover five vulnerabilities in smart contracts. To train and validate the models, we used a dataset that includes 106474 audited smart contracts taken from the public Ethereum blockchain. Instead of the source code that is typically used by most deep learning-based solutions, the models receive input in the form of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) bytecode. Across all five vulnerabilities, the Recurrent Neural Network model has an average micro F1-score of 0.93, whereas the Convolutional Neural Network achieves an average micro F1-score of 0.89. Through comparative research with various deep learning systems and static analysis tools, we have determined that EVM bytecode may be leveraged as a feature to detect vulnerabilities in smart contracts.

Artificial Intelligence in Law
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
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Jun 5, 2024·Digital Government Research and Practice
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Cryptocurrency Frauds for Dummies: How ChatGPT introduces us to fraud?

Wail Zellagui, Abdessamad Imine, Yamina Tadjeddine

Recent advances in the field of large language models (LLMs), particularly the ChatGPT family, have given rise to a powerful and versatile machine interlocutor, packed with knowledge and challenging our understanding of learning. This interlocutor is a double-edged sword: it can be harnessed for a wide variety of beneficial tasks, but it can also be used to cause harm. This study explores the complicated interaction between ChatGPT and the growing problem of cryptocurrency fraud. Although ChatGPT is known for its adaptability and ethical considerations when used for harmful purposes, we highlight the deep connection that may exist between ChatGPT and fraudulent actions in the volatile cryptocurrency ecosystem. Based on our categorization of cryptocurrency frauds, we show how to influence outputs, bypass ethical terms, and achieve specific fraud goals by manipulating ChatGPT prompts. Furthermore, our findings emphasize the importance of realizing that ChatGPT could be a valuable instructor even for novice fraudsters, as well as understanding and safely deploying complex language models, particularly in the context of cryptocurrency frauds. Finally, our study underlines the importance of using LLMs responsibly and ethically in the digital currency sector, identifying potential risks and resolving ethical issues. It should be noted that our work is not intended to encourage and promote fraud, but rather to raise awareness of the risks of fraud associated with the use of ChatGPT.

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cs.CL
cs.AI
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Original source
Jun 2, 2024·Future Internet
34 cites
Efficiency of Federated Learning and Blockchain in Preserving Privacy and Enhancing the Performance of Credit Card Fraud Detection (CCFD) Systems

Tahani Baabdullah, Amani Alzahrani, Danda B. Rawat, Chunmei Liu

Increasing global credit card usage has elevated it to a preferred payment method for daily transactions, underscoring its significance in global financial cybersecurity. This paper introduces a credit card fraud detection (CCFD) system that integrates federated learning (FL) with blockchain technology. The experiment employs FL to establish a global learning model on the cloud server, which transmits initial parameters to individual local learning models on fog nodes. With three banks (fog nodes) involved, each bank trains its learning model locally, ensuring data privacy, and subsequently sends back updated parameters to the global learning model. Through the integration of FL and blockchain, our system ensures privacy preservation and data protection. We utilize three machine learning and deep neural network learning algorithms, RF, CNN, and LSTM, alongside deep optimization techniques such as ADAM, SGD, and MSGD. The SMOTE oversampling technique is also employed to balance the dataset before model training. Our proposed framework has demonstrated efficiency and effectiveness in enhancing classification performance and prediction accuracy.

Open access
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
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May 30, 2024·IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
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Anomaly Detection Service for Blockchain Transactions Using Minimal Substitution-Based Label Propagation

Ranran Wang, Yin Zhang⋆, Limei Peng

Supervising illicit activities on blockchain networks, such as money laundering, fraud, extortion, Ponzi schemes, and funding for terrorist organizations, presents significant challenges. Emerging machine learning methods for detecting abnormal transactions face hurdles due to high labeling costs, limited labeled data, and data imbalance. To address this, this paper proposes aMinimalSubstitution-basedLabelPropagation(MSLP) model to provide more labeled data to balance the graph data and complement the sample for anomalous transaction detection service in the blockchain networks. As far as we know, MSLP is the first method that utilizes the minimal substitution theory from the social computing field to find more abnormal transactions with under-labeling budget constraints. This approach has the potential to obtain more high-quality labeled data with minimal computational cost by utilizing a small amount of labeled graph data. Then, a label evaluation mechanism is proposed to decide the number of samples to be adopted for each class, ensuring the performance of downstream graph neural networks. Finally, extensive experiments were conducted and the proposed model improved the F1 score of illegal transaction node detection by 2.6% to 8.2%.

Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Spam and Phishing Detection
Original source
May 19, 2024·2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
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Pulling Off The Mask: Forensic Analysis of the Deceptive Creator Wallets Behind Smart Contract Fraud

Mingxuan Yao, Runze Zhang, Haichuan Xu, Shih-Huan Chou · 7 authors

Criminals, using crypto wallets referred to as Deceptive Creator Wallets (DCWs), have orchestrated fraudulent activities by luring victims to transfer funds to fraud smart contracts. Since it is almost impossible to reverse the transactions or pinpoint the true identity of the criminals, the industry has turned to flagging such contracts as user warnings. However, current mitigation efforts focus on individual contracts, overlooking the DCWs behind the scenes. Consequently, our research found that this oversight allows fraud to thrive. To address this, we developed CoCo, an automated forensic analysis pipeline that processes a single fraud contract and generates evidence that the legal authorities need to mitigate the fraud. Applying CoCo to 157 confirmed fraud contracts, our research uncovered 1,283,198 associated contracts linked to 91 DCWs, responsible for 2,638,752 ETH ($2,089,504,682) in illicit profits. More alarmingly, CoCo traces the fraudulent activities back to September 2017. In response, we are closely collaborating with Etherscan and the FBI to combat the fraud identified in our study.

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Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
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May 16, 2024·Anais da XV Escola Regional de Alto Desempenho de São Paulo (ERAD-SP 2024)
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Criação de um Dataset para Caracterização de Código de Contratos Inteligentes na Rede Ethereum

João Ricardo Pereira Marques, Jo�ão Fabrício Filho, R.A. Pereira Goncalves

Este artigo apresenta uma abordagem para a criação de um dataset com os códigos dos contratos implantados na rede Ethereum. O critério de seleção compreende os três tipos de transações: regulares, de criação e de execução do código dos contratos. As ferramentas ethereumetl e Duckdb são utilizadas para extração dos dados e a criação do banco de dados. A base de dados reúne informações de blocos, transações, código dos contratos, informações sobre as instruções utilizadas em cada contrato e quantas vezes cada contrato foi executado e em quais versões da Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

Open access
Artificial Intelligence in Law
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
Original source
May 8, 2024·Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024
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ZipZap: Efficient Training of Language Models for Large-Scale Fraud Detection on Blockchain

Sihao Hu, Tiansheng Huang, Ka-Ho Chow, Wenqi Wei · 6 authors

Language models (LMs) have demonstrated superior performance in detecting fraudulent activities on Blockchains. Nonetheless, the sheer volume of Blockchain data results in excessive memory and computational costs when training LMs from scratch, limiting their capabilities to large-scale applications. In this paper, we present ZipZap, a framework tailored to achieve both parameter and computational efficiency when training LMs on large-scale transaction data. First, with the frequency-aware compression, an LM can be compressed down to a mere 7.5% of its initial size with an imperceptible performance dip. This technique correlates the embedding dimension of an address with its occurrence frequency in the dataset, motivated by the observation that embeddings of low-frequency addresses are insufficiently trained and thus negating the need for a uniformly large dimension for knowledge representation. Second, ZipZap accelerates the speed through the asymmetric training paradigm: It performs transaction dropping and cross-layer parameter-sharing to expedite the pre-training process, while revert to the standard training paradigm for fine-tuning to strike a balance between efficiency and efficacy, motivated by the observation that the optimization goals of pre-training and fine-tuning are inconsistent. Evaluations on real-world, large-scale datasets demonstrate that ZipZap delivers notable parameter and computational efficiency improvements for training LMs. Our implementation is available at: https://github.com/git-disl/ZipZap.

Open access
Spam and Phishing Detection
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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May 3, 2024·INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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Anonymous Crime Reporting using Blockchain and Smart Contract

Student, CSE, Sir MVIT, B Sumangala, Aman Raj, Amritanshu Bhardwaj · 6 authors

Abstract - CrypticReport is a decentralized crime reporting system designed to make public reporting safer, more transparent, and free from identity risks. Citizens often avoid reporting crimes due to fear of exposure, harassment, or data misuse. CrypticReport overcomes these challenges by combining blockchain technology, decentralized IPFS storage, artificial intelligence or zero-knowledge–based authentication. Using Anon Aadhaar, users can verify their identity without revealing any personal information. AI models classify reports to block spam and detect duplicate submissions. All verified reports and evidence are stored in IPFS, and their hashes are recorded on the blockchain for tamper-proof storage. The platform uses a React interface for reporting, a Flask backend for AI processing, Ethereum smart contracts for record immutability, and the Waku protocol for real-time updates between citizens and authorities. Testing shows that the system improves trust, preserves anonymity, and ensures that no data can be altered once submitted. CrypticReport proves that decentralized systems can make crime reporting more secure, reliable, and citizen-friendly. Key Words: Blockchain, IPFS, Anonymous Reporting, AI Classification, Zero-Knowledge Proof, Decentralized Systems

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Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
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May 2, 2024·WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
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How Do Innovative Improvements in Forensic Accounting and Its Related Technologies Sweeten Fraud Investigation and Prevention?

Hossam Haddad, Esraa Esam Alharasis, Jihad Fraij, Nidal Mahmoud Al-Ramahi

The purpose of this article is to look at recent developments in forensic accounting that have to do with preventing and investigating fraud. The following new developments in forensic accounting are being studied by doing a thorough literature review: data analytics, cyber forensic accounting, and the impact of blockchain and cryptocurrencies on the field. We take a close look at each new trend, breaking it down into its uses, pros, disadvantages, and ethical implications. Case studies and real-world examples back up the findings, showing how effective these fraud prevention and investigation tendencies are. Investigations into financial crimes employing information technology have their own set of challenges, which the report sheds light on. Blockchain technology’s capacity to increase accountability, traceability, and transparency in financial transactions is also explored. To improve fraud detection and prevention efforts, the study finishes with suggestions for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to adapt to and take advantage of these new trends. To effectively identify and discourage financial crime in the constantly evolving world of new technology, the study finishes by stressing the necessity for continuous research and innovation, highlighting the dynamic character of forensic accounting.

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Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
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