Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become increasingly popular both because of their ease of use and their availability through almost any smart device. Unfortunately, these characteristics make OSNs also target of users interested in performing malicious activities, such as spreading malware and performing phishing attacks. In this paper we address the problem of spam detection on Twitter providing a novel method to support the creation of large-scale annotated datasets. More specifically, URL inspection and tweet clustering are performed in order to detect some common behaviors of spammers and legitimate users. Finally, the manual annotation effort is further reduced by grouping similar users according to some characteristics. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Concone F., Lo Re G., Morana M., Ruocco C. (2019). Assisted labeling for spam account detection on twitter. In Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2019 (pp. 359-366). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. [10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2019.00073].

Assisted labeling for spam account detection on twitter

Concone F.;Lo Re G.;Morana M.;Ruocco C.
2019-01-01

Abstract

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become increasingly popular both because of their ease of use and their availability through almost any smart device. Unfortunately, these characteristics make OSNs also target of users interested in performing malicious activities, such as spreading malware and performing phishing attacks. In this paper we address the problem of spam detection on Twitter providing a novel method to support the creation of large-scale annotated datasets. More specifically, URL inspection and tweet clustering are performed in order to detect some common behaviors of spammers and legitimate users. Finally, the manual annotation effort is further reduced by grouping similar users according to some characteristics. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
2019
978-1-7281-1689-1
Concone F., Lo Re G., Morana M., Ruocco C. (2019). Assisted labeling for spam account detection on twitter. In Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2019 (pp. 359-366). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. [10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2019.00073].
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