• BlockTag: Design and applications of a tagging system for blockchain analysis 

      Boshmaf, Yazan; Al Jawaheri, Husam; Al Sabah, Mashael ( Springer New York LLC , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Annotating blockchains with auxiliary data is useful for many applications. For example, criminal investigation of darknet marketplaces, such as Silk Road and Agora, typically involves linking Bitcoin addresses, from which ...
    • Measurement and Analysis of Bitcoin Transactions of Ransomware 

      Basil Al Jawaheri, Husam; Al Sabah, Mashael; Boshmaf, Yazan ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Recently, more than 100,000 cases for ransomware attacks were reported in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region [2]. Ransomware is a malware category that limits the access of users to their files by encrypting them. ...