A categorization scheme for socialbot attacks in online social networks
Social and Information Networks
2014-02-26 v1 Physics and Society
Abstract
In the past, online social networks (OSN) like Facebook and Twitter became powerful instruments for communication and networking. Unfortunately, they have also become a welcome target for socialbot attacks. Therefore, a deep understanding of the nature of such attacks is important to protect the Eco-System of OSNs. In this extended abstract we propose a categorization scheme of social bot attacks that aims at providing an overview of the state of the art of techniques in this emerging field. Finally, we demonstrate the usefulness of our categorization scheme by characterizing recent socialbot attacks according to our categorization scheme.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.6288,
title = {A categorization scheme for socialbot attacks in online social networks},
author = {Silvia Mitter and Claudia Wagner and Markus Strohmaier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.6288},
year = {2014}
}