Twitter is the third most popular worldwide Online Social Network (OSN) after Facebook and Instagram. Compared to other OSNs, it has a simple data model and a straightforward data …
Within OSNs, many of our supposedly online friends may instead be fake accounts called social bots, part of large groups that purposely re-share targeted content. Here, we study …
A Alarifi, M Alsaleh, AM Al-Salman - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Many machine-controlled Twitter accounts (also called “Sybils”) are created each day to provide services, flood out messages for astroturf political campaigns, write fake product …
Users of the Twitter microblogging platform share a considerable amount of information through short messages on a daily basis. Some of these so-called tweets discuss issues …
A Gupta, R Kaushal - 2017 ISEA Asia Security and Privacy …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
People are highly dependent on online social networks (OSNs) which have attracted the interest of cyber criminals for carrying out a number of malicious activities. An entire industry …
Spam in online social networks (OSNs) is a systemic problem that imposes a threat to these services in terms of undermining their value to advertisers and potential investors, as well as …
Q Fu, B Feng, D Guo, Q Li - Computers & Security, 2018 - Elsevier
Online social networks, such as Facebook and Sina Weibo, have become the most popular platforms for information sharing and social activities. Spammers have utilized social …
FA Chowdhury, L Allen, M Yousuf… - Companion proceedings of …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Abuse and spam in Twitter have long been a pressing issue, and in response, Twitter regularly purges (ie, suspends in mass) accounts that violate Twitter Rules. However, there …
M Alsaleh, A Alarifi, AM Al-Salman… - 2014 13th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fake identities and user accounts (also called" Sybils") in online communities represent today a treasure for adversaries to spread fake product reviews, malware and spam on …