Social Networking Security during COVID‐19: A Systematic Literature Review

R Abid, M Rizwan, P Veselý, A Basharat… - Wireless …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
During the Covid‐19 Pandemic, the usage of social media networks increased
exponentially. People engage in education, business, shopping, and other social activities …

Mush: Multi-stimuli hawkes process based sybil attacker detector for user-review social networks

Z Qu, C Lyu, CH Chi - IEEE Transactions on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
User-Review Social Networks (URSNs) now become the targets of Sybil attacks, where fake
reviews are posted by attackers to raise the reputation of listed services or products. Unlike …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring machine learning techniques for fake profile detection in online social networks

NSG Bharti, P Gulia - Int. J. Electr. Comput. Eng. IJECE, 2023 - researchgate.net
The online social network is the largest network, more than 4 billion users use social media
and with its rapid growth, the risk of maintaining the integrity of data has tremendously …

Active malicious accounts detection with multimodal fusion machine learning algorithm

Y Tang, D Zhang, W Liang, KC Li, N Sukhija - Inernational conference on …, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents a multi-modal fusion machine learning algorithm to detect active
malicious accounts in social networks. First, we use the XGBoost algorithm to rank features' …

Detecting fake reviews with generative adversarial networks for mobile social networks

Z Qu, Q Jia, C Lyu, J Liu, X Liu… - Security and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the growth of mobile social networks (MSNs), crowdsourced information could be used
for recommendation to mobile users. However, it is quite vulnerable to Sybil attacks, where …

Uncovering Malicious Accounts in Online Social Networks Using XGBoost and Graph Convolution Networks

Y Tang, D Zhang, KC Li, J Yuan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we introduce a Machine-Learning (ML) approach based on XGBoost and Graph
Convolutional Networks (GCNs) for the detection of active malicious accounts in Online …