About Device and Browser Info
Device and browser info was started by Antoine Vastel, PhD in April 2024. It aims to centralize the data and knowledge around bot and fraud detection, such as:Device and browser info aims to help security researchers and analysts to easily access data either manually through the website or automatically using APIs. As a security researcher, I also share insights regarding the way I gather data and how it can be leveraged to detect fraud and bots.
About Antoine Vastel
I am currently the Head of Research at Castle. In this role, I focus on improving Castle's bot detection engine through different approaches, including behavioral detection, HTTP/browser fingerprinting and (residential) proxies/infected IP detection.
Before that, I spent 5 years at DataDome, where I was VP of Research, overseeing the SOC and threat research team. I hold a PhD in computer science with a focus on browser fingerprinting.I like to write about bot detection and browser fingerprinting, either on device and browser info, on my personal website, and Castle's blog.
I also like to give talks on these topics (non-exhaustive list):
- Are Your Devices Part of a (Legal) Botnet? Using ML to Detect Residential Proxy IPs at Black Hat US 2023 (sponsored talk)
- Leveraging Streaming-Based Outlier Detection and SliceLine to Stop Heavily Distributed Bot Attacks at Black Hat Asia 2023
- Temporal: Bot or human? Detecting malicious bots with machine learning in 2021 at OWASP (2021)
- Fp-Scanner: The Privacy Implications of Browser Fingerprint Inconsistencies at Usenix Security 2018
- FP-Stalker: Tracking Browser Fingerprint Evolutions at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2018
I was (among) the first researchers to share techniques to detect Headless Chrome: