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Bots constitute a significant portion of Internet traffic and are a source of various issues across multiple domains. Modern bots often become indistinguishable from real users, as they employ similar methods to browse the web, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jan Kadel , August See , Ritwik Sinha , Mathias Fischer

Introduction: The use of chatbots is becoming increasingly important across various aspects of daily life. However, the privacy concerns associated with these communications have not yet been thoroughly addressed. The aim of this study was…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Julia Ive , Vishal Yadav , Mariia Ignashina , Matthew Rand , Paulina Bondaronek

The proliferation of IoT devices which can be more easily compromised than desktop computers has led to an increase in the occurrence of IoT based botnet attacks. In order to mitigate this new threat there is a need to develop new methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Yair Meidan , Michael Bohadana , Yael Mathov , Yisroel Mirsky , Dominik Breitenbacher , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici

Peer-to-peer (P2P) botnets have become one of the major threats in network security for serving as the infrastructure that responsible for various of cyber-crimes. Though a few existing work claimed to detect traditional botnets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Di Zhuang , J. Morris Chang

Social bots have become an important component of online social media. Deceptive bots, in particular, can manipulate online discussions of important issues ranging from elections to public health, threatening the constructive exchange of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Kai-Cheng Yang , Emilio Ferrara , Filippo Menczer

When users leave their mobile devices unattended, or let others use them momentarily, they are susceptible to privacy breaches. Existing technological defenses, such as unlock authentication or account switching, have proven to be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Tiago Guerreiro , Ana Pires , Luís Carriço

Social bots are currently regarded an influential but also somewhat mysterious factor in public discourse and opinion making. They are considered to be capable of massively distributing propaganda in social and online media and their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Christian Grimme , Mike Preuss , Lena Adam , Heike Trautmann

Automated social agents, or bots, are increasingly becoming a problem on social media platforms. There is a growing body of literature and multiple tools to aid in the detection of such agents on online social networking platforms. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Laurenz A Cornelissen , Richard J Barnett , Petrus Schoonwinkel , Brent D. Eichstadt , Hluma B. Magodla

Bots, software-controlled accounts that operate on social media, have been used to manipulate and deceive. We studied the characteristics and activity of bots around major political events, including elections in various countries. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Emilio Ferrara

Knowledge-based systems reason over some knowledge base. Hence, an important issue for such systems is how to acquire the knowledge needed for their inference. This paper assesses active learning methods for acquiring knowledge for "static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Xueqi Yang , Zhe Yu , Junjie Wang , Tim Menzies

Internet of Things (IoT) occupies a vital aspect of our everyday lives. IoT networks composed of smart-devices which communicate and transfer the information without the physical intervention of humans. Due to such proliferation and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Jawad Ali , Ahmad Shahrafidz Khalid , Eiad Yafi , Shahrulniza Musa , Waqas Ahmed

Socialbots are intelligent software controlling all the behavior of fake accounts in an online social network. They use artificial intelligence techniques to pass themselves off as human social media users. Socialbots exploit user trust to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Samaneh Hosseini Moghaddam , Mandana Khademi , Maghsoud Abbaspour

Botnets are networks of compromised computers with malicious code which are remotely controlled and which are used for starting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, sending enormous number of e-mails (SPAM) and other sorts of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Srdjan Stankovic , Dejan Simic

Online social networks are often subject to influence campaigns by malicious actors through the use of automated accounts known as bots. We consider the problem of detecting bots in online social networks and assessing their impact on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards , David Scott Hunter , Zakaria el Hjouji , Tauhid Zaman

The Internet as we know it Today, comprises several fundamental interrelated networks, among which is the Internet of Things (IoT). Despite their versatility, several IoT devices are vulnerable from a security perspective, which renders…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Zainab Al-Othman , Mouhammd Alkasassbeh , Sherenaz AL-Haj Baddar

The widespread adoption of Internet of Things has led to many security issues. Recently, there have been malware attacks on IoT devices, the most prominent one being that of Mirai. IoT devices such as IP cameras, DVRs and routers were…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Ayush Kumar , Teng Joon Lim

The widespread of Online Social Networks and the opportunity to commercialize popular accounts have attracted a large number of automated programs, known as artificial accounts. This paper focuses on the classification of human and fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Ilia Karpov , Ekaterina Glazkova

IThe botnet is considered as a critical issue of the Internet due to its fast growing mechanism and affect. Recently, Botnets have utilized the DNS and query DNS server just like any legitimate hosts. In this case, it is difficult to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-11-04 Ahmed M. Manasrah , Awsan Hasan , Omar Amer Abouabdalla , Sureswaran Ramadass

Social bots play a significant role in many online social networks (OSN) as they imitate human behavior. This fact raises difficult questions about their capabilities and potential risks. Given the recent advances in Generative AI (GenAI),…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Shaghayegh Najari , Davood Rafiee , Mostafa Salehi , Reza Farahbakhsh

Identifying the tasks a given piece of malware was designed to perform (e.g. logging keystrokes, recording video, establishing remote access, etc.) is a difficult and time-consuming operation that is largely human-driven in practice. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Eric Nunes , Casey Buto , Paulo Shakarian , Christian Lebiere , Stefano Bennati , Robert Thomson , Holger Jaenisch