Title
Key challenges in defending against malicious socialbots
Abstract
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 that sense, think and act cooperatively in social settings just like human beings. In the wrong hands, these bots can be used to infiltrate online communities, build up trust over time and then send personalized messages to elicit information, sway opinions and call to action. In this position paper, we observe that defending against such malicious bots raises a set of unique challenges that relate to web automation, online-offline identity binding and usable security.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
LEET
social setting,cyber criminal,artificial intelligence,malicious bots,key challenge,position paper,personalized message,malicious socialbots,human being,online community,online persona,online-offline identity
Field
DocType
Citations 
USable,Internet privacy,Computer security,Computer science,Position paper,Persona,Exploit,Call to action,Web automation
Conference
18
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.82
19
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yazan Boshmaf149122.39
Ildar Muslukhov241518.51
Konstantin Beznosov31521105.47
Matei Ripeanu42461233.84