Fingerprinting the Fingerprinters: Learning to Detect Browser Fingerprinting Behaviors

Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt, and Zubair Shafiq

IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), 2021.
[ code ] [ detections ] [ bug reports ] [ promo video ] [ ZDNet ] [ Venture Beat ]


AdGraph: A Graph-Based Approach to Ad and Tracker Blocking

Umar Iqbal, Peter Snyder, Shitong Zhu, Benjamin Livshits, Zhiyun Qian, and Zubair Shafiq

IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), 2020.

Best applied research paper, 3rd place, CSAW NYU Tandon.

[ code ] [ promo video ] [ talk video ] [ slides ] [ official announcement ] [ CNET ]


ShadowBlock: A Lightweight and Stealthy Adblocking Browser

Shitong Zhu, Umar Iqbal, Zhongjie Wang, Zhiyun Qian, Zubair Shafiq, and Weiteng Chen

The Web Conference (WWW), 2019.
[ code ] [ demo ] [ poster ]


The Ad Wars: Retrospective Measurement and Analysis of Anti-Adblock Filter Lists

Umar Iqbal, Zubair Shafiq, and Zhiyun Qian

ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2017.
[ slides ] [ poster ] [ Performance IN ] [ Bleeping Computer ]


Malware Slums: Measurement and Analysis of Malware on Traffic Exchanges

Salman Yousaf, Umar Iqbal, Shehroze Farooqi, Raza Ahmad, Zubair Shafiq, and Fareed Zaffar

46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2016.