Title
Cdetector: Extracting Textual Features Of Financial Social Media To Detect Cyber Attacks
Abstract
With the proliferation of social media., cyber threats and attacks have significantly increased in complexity and quantity in financial market. Malicious hackers leverage the influence of social media to spread deceptive information with an intent to gain abnormal profits illegally or to cause losses. Measuring information content in financial social media helps identify these threats and attacks. In this paper, we propose CDetector, an ML-based approach to identifying social media features that correlate with abnormal returns of the stocks of companies vulnerable to be targets of cyber attacks (e.g., cognitive hacking). To test our approach, we collected price data and the social media messages on multiple technology companies, and extracted features that contributed to abnormal stock movements. Preliminary results show that the top social media features associated with abnormal price movements are the terms that are simple, motivate actions, incite emotion, and use exaggeration, and the selected features correlate with abnormal messages and abnormal returns of the stocks of companies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICCCN52240.2021.9522290
30TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS (ICCCN 2021)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
cyber attacks, cyber threats, abnormal behavior, cybersecurity, social media, feature extraction
Conference
1095-2055
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jinwei Liu1147.78
Long Cheng29116.99
Hongmei Chi37926.07
Cong Liu412814.67
Richard Aló501.35