The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today's Web. Politicians, celebrities, revolutionists, and others use OSNs as a podium to deliver their message to millions of active web...
View ArticleThe Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today's Web. Politicians, celebrities, revolutionists, and others use OSNs as a podium to deliver their message to millions of active web...
View Article[POSTER] The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today's Web. Politicians, celebrities, revolutionists, and others use OSNs as a podium to deliver their message to millions of active web...
View ArticleThe Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have attracted millions of active users and have become an integral part of today's Web ecosystem. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, OSNs can be used to harvest private...
View ArticleThe Socialbot Network: Are Social Botnets Possible?
In this invited piece at the ACM Interactions Magazine, we briefly describe our research into the use, impact, and implications of socialbots on Facebook.
View ArticleKey Challenges in Defending Against Malicious Socialbots
The ease with which we adopt online personas and relationships has created a soft spot that cyber criminals are willing to exploit. Advances in artificial intelligence make it feasible to design bots...
View ArticleKey Challenges in Defending Against Malicious Socialbots
The ease with which we adopt online personas and relationships has created a soft spot that cyber criminals are willing to exploit. Advances in artificial intelligence make it feasible to design bots...
View ArticleDesign and Analysis of a Social Botnet
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have attracted millions of active users and have become an integral part of today's Web ecosystem. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, OSNs can be used to harvest private...
View ArticleSecurity Analysis of Malicious Socialbots on the Web
The open nature of the Web, online social networks (OSNs) in particular, makes it possible to design socialbots—automation software that controls fake accounts in a target OSN, and has the ability to...
View ArticleThwarting Fake OSN Accounts by Predicting their Victims
Traditional defense mechanisms for fighting against automated fake accounts in online social networks are victim-agnostic. Even though victims of fake accounts play an important role in the viability...
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