Detecting social bots on twitter: a literature review

E Alothali, N Zaki, EA Mohamed… - … on innovations in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the exponential growth in the popularity of online social networks (OSNs), such as
Twitter and Facebook, the number of machine accounts that are designed to mimic human …

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 …

Twitter spam detection: Survey of new approaches and comparative study

T Wu, S Wen, Y Xiang, W Zhou - Computers & Security, 2018 - Elsevier
Twitter spam has long been a critical but difficult problem to be addressed. So far,
researchers have proposed many detection and defence methods in order to protect Twitter …

[PDF][PDF] Bot-hunter: a tiered approach to detecting & characterizing automated activity on twitter

DM Beskow, KM Carley - Conference paper. SBP-BRiMS …, 2018 - casos.cs.cmu.edu
As malicious automated agents, or bots, are increasingly used to manipulate the global
marketplace of information and beliefs, their detection, characterization, and at times …

Discovering optimal features using static analysis and a genetic search based method for Android malware detection

A Firdaus, NB Anuar, A Karim, MFA Razak - Frontiers of Information …, 2018 - Springer
Mobile device manufacturers are rapidly producing miscellaneous Android versions
worldwide. Simultaneously, cyber criminals are executing malicious actions, such as …

Bot conversations are different: leveraging network metrics for bot detection in twitter

DM Beskow, KM Carley - 2018 IEEE/ACM International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated social media bots have existed almost as long as the social media platforms they
inhabit. Although efforts have long existed to detect and characterize these autonomous …

How modern news aggregators help development communities shape and share knowledge

M Aniche, C Treude, I Steinmacher, I Wiese… - Proceedings of the 40th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Many developers rely on modern news aggregator sites such as Reddit and Hacker News to
stay up to date with the latest technological developments and trends. In order to understand …

Recognizing human behaviours in online social networks

F Amato, A Castiglione, A De Santo, V Moscato… - Computers & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become a primary area of interest for cutting-
edge cybersecurity applications, due to their ever increasing popularity and to the variety of …

Root exploit detection and features optimization: mobile device and blockchain based medical data management

A Firdaus, NB Anuar, MFA Razak, IAT Hashem… - Journal of medical …, 2018 - Springer
The increasing demand for Android mobile devices and blockchain has motivated malware
creators to develop mobile malware to compromise the blockchain. Although the blockchain …

A feature selection approach to detect spam in the Facebook social network

MK Sohrabi, F Karimi - Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2018 - Springer
The widespread adoption of social networks and their enormous facilities and growing
opportunities has attracted many users and audience. But along with attractive and …