2025

IMC Nicole Gerzon, Ben Weintraub, Junbeom In, Alan Mislove, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. 2025. Quantifying the Threat of Sandwiching MEV on Jito: A Measurement of Solana’s Leading Validator Client. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’25), October 28–31, 2025, Madison, WI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3730567.3764493 PDF
PhD Dissertation Ben Weintraub. 2025. Attacks, Predatory Trading, and Scams on Blockchain Systems (Doctoral dissertation, Northeastern University). PDF
SACMAT Ben Weintraub, Chanyuan Liu, William Enck, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. 2025. ProfessorX: Detecting Silent Vulnerabilities in Policy Engine Implementations. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT '25), July 8–10, 2025, Stony Brook, NY, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3734436.3734446 PDF Code

2024

CCS Ben Weintraub, Satwik Prabhu Kumble, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Stefanie Roos. 2024. Payout Races and Congested Channels: A Formal Analysis of Security in the Lightning Network. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’24), October 14–18, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3658644.3670315 PDF Code
CCS Ben Weintraub, Jiwon Kim, Ran Tao, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Hamed Okhravi, Dave (Jing) Tian, and Benjamin E. Ujcich. 2024. Exploiting Temporal Vulnerabilities for Unauthorized Access in Intent-Based Networking. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’24), October 14–18, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3658644.3670301 PDF Code
CCS Best Applied Research Paper Christof Ferreira Torres, Albin Mamuti, Ben Weintraub, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Shweta Shinde. 2024. Rolling in the Shadows: Analyzing the Extraction of MEV Across Layer-2 Rollups. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’24), October 14–18, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3658644.3690259 PDF Code

2023

SACMAT Best Paper Runner Up Iffat Anjum, Jessica Sokal, Hafiza Ramzah Rehman, Ben Weintraub, Ethan Leba, William Enck, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, & Bradley Reaves. (2023). MSNetViews: Geographically Distributed Management of Enterprise Network Security Policy. Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, 121–132. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589608.3593836 PDF Code

2022

IMC Ben Weintraub, Christof Ferreira Torres, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Radu State. (2022). A Flash(bot) in the Pan: Measuring Maximal Extractable Value in Private Pools. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’22). Internet Measurement Conference, Nice, France. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561448 PDF Code
S&P Kyle Hogan, Sacha Servan-Schreiber, Zachary Newman, Ben Weintraub, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Srini Devadas. ShorTor: Improving Tor Network Latency via Multi-hop Overlay Routing. IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2022. PDF Code
S&P Maria Pacheco, Max von Hippel, Ben Weintraub, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Dan Goldwasser. (2022). Automated Attack Synthesis by Extracting Finite State Machines from Protocol Specification Documents. IEEE Security & Privacy 2022, 18. PDF Code

2021

S&B Ben Weintraub, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Stefanie Roos. (2021). Structural Attacks on Local Routing in Payment Channel Networks. Workshop on Security & Privacy on the Blockchain, 362–374. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW54576.2021.00046 PDF Code
US Patent Ben Weintraub "Consensus-based policy management." U.S. Patent No. 11,005,889. 11 May 2021. PDF
US Patent Ben Weintraub, Pratik Verma, Prasad Mujumdar, Microsoft. "Policy enforcement for search engines." U.S. Patent No. 11,146,563. 12 Oct. 2021. PDF

2018

US Patent Ben Weintraub, and Pratik Verma. "Policy management, enforcement, and audit for data security." U.S. Patent No. 10,091,212. 2 Oct. 2018. PDF

2013

ASME Ben Goerdt, Amer Dababneh, Timothy Marler, Ibrahim Ozbolat, Ben Weintraub, and Ross Johnson. (2013, 15-21 November). Integration of a Reliability Model Within a Virtual Analysis System For Printed Circuit Boards. Paper presented at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, San Diego, California USA PDF

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