Malicious accounts: Dark of the social networks

KS Adewole, NB Anuar, A Kamsin, KD Varathan… - Journal of Network and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Over the last few years, online social networks (OSNs), such as Facebook, Twitter and
Tuenti, have experienced exponential growth in both profile registrations and social …

Fake profile detection on social networking websites: a comprehensive review

PK Roy, S Chahar - IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article aims to summarize the recent advancement in the fake account detection
methodology on social networking websites. Over the past decade, social networking …

Automating fake news detection system using multi-level voting model

S Kaur, P Kumar, P Kumaraguru - Soft Computing, 2020 - Springer
The issues of online fake news have attained an increasing eminence in the diffusion of
shaping news stories online. Misleading or unreliable information in the form of videos …

Exploring deep neural networks for rumor detection

MZ Asghar, A Habib, A Habib, A Khan, R Ali… - Journal of Ambient …, 2021 - Springer
The widespread propagation of numerous rumors and fake news have seriously threatened
the credibility of microblogs. Previous works often focused on maintaining the previous state …

A generic statistical approach for spam detection in online social networks

F Ahmed, M Abulaish - Computer Communications, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a generic statistical approach to identify spam profiles on Online
Social Networks (OSNs). Our study is based on real datasets containing both normal and …

A heterogeneous ensemble learning framework for spam detection in social networks with imbalanced data

C Zhao, Y Xin, X Li, Y Yang, Y Chen - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The popularity of social networks provides people with many conveniences, but their rapid
growth has also attracted many attackers. In recent years, the malicious behavior of social …

Twitter spam account detection based on clustering and classification methods

KS Adewole, T Han, W Wu, H Song… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Twitter social network has gained more popularity due to the increase in social activities of
registered users. Twitter performs dual functions of online social network (OSN), acting as a …

Recent developments in social spam detection and combating techniques: A survey

M Chakraborty, S Pal, R Pramanik… - Information Processing & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Spam in recent years has pervaded all forms of digital communication. The increase in user
base for social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc., has opened new avenues for …

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 …

Spam profile detection in social networks based on public features

AZ Ala'M, J Alqatawna, H Paris - 2017 8th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the context of Online Social Networks, Spam profiles are not just a source of unwanted
ads, but a serious security threat used by online criminals and terrorists for various malicious …