Rise of spam and compromised accounts in online social networks: A state-of-the-art review of different combating approaches

R Kaur, S Singh, H Kumar - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
Ever increasing fame and obsession for social networks has also coxswained a dramatic
increase in the presence of malicious activities. As a result, various researchers have …

Detecting malicious urls using lexical analysis

MSI Mamun, MA Rathore, AH Lashkari… - Network and System …, 2016 - Springer
The Web has long become a major platform for online criminal activities. URLs are used as
the main vehicle in this domain. To counter this issues security community focused its efforts …

An unsupervised method for social network spammer detection based on user information interests

D Koggalahewa, Y Xu, E Foo - Journal of Big Data, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Online Social Networks (OSNs) are a popular platform for communication and
collaboration. Spammers are highly active in OSNs. Uncovering spammers has become one …

Towards fighting cybercrime: Malicious url attack type detection using multiclass classification

T Manyumwa, PF Chapita, H Wu… - 2020 IEEE international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malicious Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) re-main one of the most common threats to
cybersecurity. They are commonly spread through phishing, malware and spam. One …

Spade: Multi-stage spam account detection for online social networks

F Concone, GL Re, M Morana… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have radically changed the way people
communicate. The most widely used platforms, such as Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram …

TextSpamDetector: textual content based deep learning framework for social spam detection using conjoint attention mechanism

E Elakkiya, S Selvakumar… - Journal of Ambient …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Online Social Networks (OSNs) allow easy membership leading to registration of a
huge population and generation of voluminous information. These characteristics attract …

Toward detecting malicious links in online social networks through user behavior

B Alghamdi, J Watson, Y Xu - 2016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the importance of using online social networks
(OSNs) for various purposes such as marketing, education, entertainment, and business …

Uncovering download fraud activities in mobile app markets

Y Dou, W Li, Z Liu, Z Dong, J Luo, PS Yu - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Download fraud is a prevalent threat in mobile App markets, where fraudsters manipulate
the number of downloads of Apps via various cheating approaches. Purchased fake …

Dynamic feature selection for spam detection in Twitter

MS Karakaşlı, MA Aydin, S Yarkan, A Boyaci - … Conference: Proceedings of …, 2019 - Springer
Social Networks continue to increase their popularity day by day. With the widespread
availability of Internet access, interest of people in social networks has also increased …

Spam detection in social networks based on peer acceptance

D Niranjan Koggalahewa, Y Xu, E Foo - Proceedings of the Australasian …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become immensely popular for spammers spreading
malicious content and links. Using the nature of OSNs, spammers frequently change their …