Publications
Khaleesi: Breaker of Advertising and Tracking Request Chains
Umar Iqbal, Charlie Wolfe, Charles Nguyen, Steven Englehardt, Zubair Shafiq
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), 2022.WebGraph: Capturing Advertising and Tracking Information Flows for Robust Blocking
Sandra Siby, Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt, Zubair Shafiq, Carmela Troncoso
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), 2022.FP-Radar: Longitudinal Measurement and Early Detection of Browser Fingerprinting
Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Umar Iqbal, Zubair Shafiq
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2022.Eluding ML-based Adblockers With Actionable Adversarial Examples
Shitong Zhu, Zhongjie Wang, Xun Chen, Shasha Li, Keyu Man, Umar Iqbal, Zhiyun Qian, Kevin S Chan, Srikanth V Krishnamurthy, Zubair Shafiq, Yu Hao, Guoren Li, Zheng Zhang, and Xiaochen Zou
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2021.Fingerprinting the Fingerprinters: Learning to Detect Browser Fingerprinting Behaviors
Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt, and Zubair Shafiq
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), 2021.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.
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.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.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.