Title
Identifying Compromised Accounts on Social Media Using Statistical Text Analysis.
Abstract
Compromised social media accounts are legitimate user accounts that have been hijacked by a third (malicious) party and can cause various kinds of damage. Early detection of such compromised accounts is very important in order to control the damage. In this work we propose a novel general framework for discovering compromised accounts by utilizing statistical text analysis. The framework is built on the observation that users will use language that is measurably different from the language that a hacker (or spammer) would use, when the account is compromised. We use the framework to develop specific algorithms based on language modeling and use the similarity of language models of users and spammers as features in a supervised learning setup to identify compromised accounts. Evaluation results on a large Twitter corpus of over 129 million tweets show promising results of the proposed approach.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Social and Information Networks
Early detection,Text mining,On Language,Social media,Information retrieval,Computer science,Supervised learning,Hacker,Artificial intelligence,Language model,Machine learning,Spamming
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1804.07247
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dominic Seyler194.29
Lunan Li210.34
ChengXiang Zhai311908649.74