LinkMan hyperlink-driven misbehavior detection in online security forums

R Islam, B Treves, MOF Rokon… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
How can we detect and analyze hyperlink-driven misbehavior in online forums? Online
forums contain enormous amounts of user-generated content, with threads and comments …

HyperMan: Detecting misbehavior in online forums based on hyperlink posting behavior

R Islam, B Treves, MOF Rokon, M Faloutsos - Social Network Analysis and …, 2022 - Springer
How can we detect and analyze hyperlink-driven misbehavior in online forums? Online
forums contain enormous amounts of user-generated contents, with threads and comments …

URLytics: Profiling forum users from their posted urls

B Treves, MR Masud… - 2022 IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online forums contain a substantial amount of data, but very few studies have focused on
mining the URLs posted by users. How can we fully leverage these posted URLs to extract …

Inferip: Extracting actionable information from security discussion forums

J Gharibshah, TC Li, MS Vanrell, A Castro… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
How much useful information can we extract from security forums? Many security initiatives
and commercial entities are harnessing the readily public information, but they seem to …

An empirical study of malicious threads in security forums

J Gharibshah, Z Gharibshah, E E. Papalexakis… - … Proceedings of The …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
How useful is the information that a security analyst can extract from a security forum? We
focus on threads of interest, which we define as:(i) alerts of worrisome events, such as …

RThread: A thread-centric analysis of security forums

J Tachaiya, J Gharibshah… - 2020 IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online forums have been shown to contain a wealth of useful information. With a few notable
exceptions, such forums have not received much attention from the research community …

Hackers hedging bets: A cross-community analysis of three online hacking forums

AJ Park, R Frank, A Mikhaylov… - 2018 IEEE/ACM …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online hacking forums have been used as communities where users, possibly
cybercriminals, can learn and exchange knowledge, and purchase the necessary tools and …

Mining key-hackers on darkweb forums

E Marin, J Shakarian… - 2018 1st International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, there is an interest in studying cyber crime from a hacker-centric perspective,
whose insight is to locate key-hackers and use them to find credible threat intelligence …

Gossip: Automatically identifying malicious domains from mailing list discussions

C Huang, S Hao, L Invernizzi, J Liu, Y Fang… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Domain names play a critical role in cybercrime, because they identify hosts that serve
malicious content (such as malware, Trojan binaries, or malicious scripts), operate as …

Capturing cross-platform interaction for identifying coordinated accounts of misinformation campaigns

Y Zhang, K Sharma, Y Liu - European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2023 - Springer
Recent years have witnessed the increasing abuse of coordinated accounts on multiple
social media platforms. Such accounts are usually operated by misinformation campaigns to …