The rise of social bots

E Ferrara, O Varol, C Davis, F Menczer… - Communications of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
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NO. 7 review articles ILL US TRA TION B Y ARN0 DOI:10.1145/2818717 Today’s social bots …

Machine learning techniques applied to cybersecurity

J Martínez Torres, C Iglesias Comesaña… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Machine learning techniques are a set of mathematical models to solve high non-
linearity problems of different topics: prediction, classification, data association, data …

A framework of severity for harmful content online

MK Scheuerman, JA Jiang, C Fiesler… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of harmful content on online social media platforms has necessitated
empirical understandings of experiences of harm online and the development of practices …

Privacy and security in online social networks: A survey

I Kayes, A Iamnitchi - Online Social Networks and Media, 2017 - Elsevier
Online social networks (OSN) are a permanent presence in today's personal and
professional lives of a huge segment of the population, with direct consequences to offline …

Twitter turing test: Identifying social machines

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 …

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 …

Ephemeral astroturfing attacks: The case of fake twitter trends

T Elmas, R Overdorf, AF Özkalay… - 2021 IEEE European …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We uncover a previously unknown, ongoing as-troturfing attack on the popularity
mechanisms of social media platforms: ephemeral astroturfing attacks. In this attack, a …

Towards detecting fake user accounts in facebook

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 …

Measuring social spam and the effect of bots on information diffusion in social media

E Ferrara - Complex spreading phenomena in social systems …, 2018 - Springer
Bots have been playing a crucial role in online platform ecosystems, as efficient and
automatic tools to generate content and diffuse information to the social media human …

Authorship verification applied to detection of compromised accounts on online social networks: A continuous approach

S Barbon, RA Igawa, B Bogaz Zarpelão - Multimedia Tools and …, 2017 - Springer
Compromising legitimate accounts has been the most used strategy to spread malicious
content on OSN (Online Social Network). To address this problem, we propose a pure text …