A decade of social bot detection

S Cresci - Communications of the ACM, 2020 - dl.acm.org
A decade of social bot detection Page 1 72 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | OCTOBER
2020 | VOL. 63 | NO. 10 review articles ON THE MORNING of November 9, 2016, the world …

A review on social spam detection: Challenges, open issues, and future directions

S Rao, AK Verma, T Bhatia - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Online Social Networks are perpetually evolving and used in plenteous
applications such as content sharing, chatting, making friends/followers, customer …

Adversarial examples: A survey of attacks and defenses in deep learning-enabled cybersecurity systems

M Macas, C Wu, W Fuertes - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the last few years, the adoption of machine learning in a wide range of domains has
been remarkable. Deep learning, in particular, has been extensively used to drive …

Twibot-22: Towards graph-based twitter bot detection

S Feng, Z Tan, H Wan, N Wang… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Twitter bot detection has become an increasingly important task to combat misinformation,
facilitate social media moderation, and preserve the integrity of the online discourse. State-of …

A survey on deep learning for cybersecurity: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

M Macas, C Wu, W Fuertes - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
As the number of Internet-connected systems rises, cyber analysts find it increasingly difficult
to effectively monitor the produced volume of data, its velocity and diversity. Signature-based …

Detection of bots in social media: a systematic review

M Orabi, D Mouheb, Z Al Aghbari, I Kamel - Information Processing & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social media bots (automated accounts) attacks are organized crimes that pose potential
threats to public opinion, democracy, public health, stock market and other disciplines. While …

The paradigm-shift of social spambots: Evidence, theories, and tools for the arms race

S Cresci, R Di Pietro, M Petrocchi… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Recent studies in social media spam and automation provide anecdotal argumentation of
the rise of a new generation of spambots, so-called social spambots. Here, for the first time …

Using bert to extract topic-independent sentiment features for social media bot detection

M Heidari, JH Jones - 2020 11th IEEE annual ubiquitous …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millions of online posts about different topics and products are shared on popular social
media platforms. One use of this content is to provide crowd-sourced information about a …

Twibot-20: A comprehensive twitter bot detection benchmark

S Feng, H Wan, N Wang, J Li, M Luo - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Twitter has become a vital social media platform while an ample amount of malicious Twitter
bots exist and induce undesirable social effects. Successful Twitter bot detection proposals …

Deep graph neural network-based spammer detection under the perspective of heterogeneous cyberspace

Z Guo, L Tang, T Guo, K Yu, M Alazab… - Future generation …, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to the severe threat to cyberspace security, detection of online spammers has been a
universal concern of academia. Nowadays, prevailing literature of this field almost leveraged …