Detection of profile injection attacks in social recommender systems using outlier analysis

A Davoudi, M Chatterjee - … Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Davoudi, M Chatterjee
2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2017ieeexplore.ieee.org
As systems based on social networks grow, they get affected by huge number of fake user
profiles. Particularly, social recommender systems are vulnerable to profile injection attacks
where malicious profiles are injected into the rating system to affect user's opinion. The
objective of attackers is to inject a large set of biased profiles that provide favorable or
unfavorable recommendations for a product. In this paper, we propose a classification
technique for detection of attackers. First, we define the attributes that provide the likelihood …
As systems based on social networks grow, they get affected by huge number of fake user profiles. Particularly, social recommender systems are vulnerable to profile injection attacks where malicious profiles are injected into the rating system to affect user's opinion. The objective of attackers is to inject a large set of biased profiles that provide favorable or unfavorable recommendations for a product. In this paper, we propose a classification technique for detection of attackers. First, we define the attributes that provide the likelihood of a user having a profile of that of an attacker. Using user-item rating matrix, user-connection matrix, and similarity between users, we find if the ratings are abnormal and if there are random connections in the network. Then, we use fc-means clustering to categorize users into authentic users and attackers. To evaluate our framework, we use Epinions dataset and inject intelligent push and nuke attacks. These attacks make arbitrary connections to existing users and provide biased ratings. To evaluate the performance, we use precision and recall to show that fc-means clustering can identify the attackers with high accuracy and low false positives.
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