Measuring, Modeling, and Mitigating Social Network Spam

In this project we develop novel techniques to detect and block social network spam.

Papers

POISED: Spotting Twitter Spam Off the Beaten Paths

Shirin Nilizadeh, Francois Labreche, Alireza Sadighian, Jose Fernandez, Christopher Kruegel, Gianluca Stringhini, and Giovanni Vigna.
CCS, 2017.

EvilCohort: Detecting Communities of Malicious Accounts on Online Services

Gianluca Stringhini, Pierre Mourlanne, Gregoire Jacob, Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna.
USENIX Security, 2015.

COMPA: Detecting Compromised Accounts on Social Networks

Manuel Egele, Gianluca Stringhini, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna.
NDSS, 2013.

Detecting Spammers on Social Networks

Gianluca Stringhini, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna.
ACSAC, 2010.

Data

Dataset for the CCS 2017 paper