Leveraging crowdsourcing for efficient malicious users detection in large-scale social networks

G Yang, S He, Z Shi - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The past few years have witnessed the dramatic popularity of large-scale social networks
where malicious nodes detection is one of the fundamental problems. Most existing works …

Leveraging analysis of user behavior to identify malicious activities in large-scale social networks

M Al-Qurishi, MS Hossain, M Alrubaian… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the enormous growth and volume of online social networks and their features, along
with the vast number of socially connected users, it has become difficult to explain the true …

Augmenting social bot detection with crowd-generated labels

V Benjamin, TS Raghu - Information Systems Research, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Social media platforms are facing increasing numbers of cyber-adversaries seeking to
manipulate online discourse by using social bots (ie, social media software robots) to help …

Unreliable users detection in social media: Deep learning techniques for automatic detection

G Sansonetti, F Gasparetti, G D'aniello… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the harmful consequences of the online publication of fake news have emerged
clearly, many research groups worldwide have started to work on the design and creation of …

Detecting fake news in social networks via crowdsourcing

S Tschiatschek, A Singla… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - pure.mpg.de
Our work considers leveraging crowd signals for detecting fake news and is motivated by
tools recently introduced by Facebook that enable users to flag fake news. By aggregating …

Towards detecting anomalous user behavior in online social networks

B Viswanath, MA Bashir, M Crovella, S Guha… - 23rd usenix security …, 2014 - usenix.org
Users increasingly rely on crowdsourced information, such as reviews on Yelp and Amazon,
and liked posts and ads on Facebook. This has led to a market for blackhat promotion …

Crowdtarget: Target-based detection of crowdturfing in online social networks

J Song, S Lee, J Kim - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Malicious crowdsourcing, also known as crowdturfing, has become an important security
problem. However, detecting accounts performing crowdturfing tasks is challenging because …

Fake news detection in social networks via crowd signals

S Tschiatschek, A Singla, M Gomez Rodriguez… - … proceedings of the the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Our work considers leveraging crowd signals for detecting fake news and is motivated by
tools recently introduced by Facebook that enable users to flag fake news. By aggregating …

Mining fraudsters and fraudulent strategies in large-scale mobile social networks

Y Yang, Y Xu, Y Sun, Y Dong, F Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid development of modern communication technologies-in particular,(mobile) phone
communications-has largely facilitated human social interactions and information exchange …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of fickle trolls in large-scale online social networks

H Shafiei, A Dadlani - Journal of big Data, 2022 - Springer
Online social networks have attracted billions of active users over the past decade. These
systems play an integral role in the everyday life of many people around the world. As such …