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Sybil attacks are becoming increasingly widespread and pose a significant threat to online social systems; a single adversary can inject multiple colluding identities in the system to compromise security and privacy. Recent works have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Peng Gao , Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Kurt Thomas , Prateek Mittal

Many distributed systems are subject to the Sybil attack, where an adversary subverts system operation by emulating behavior of multiple distinct nodes. Most recent work to address this problem leverages social networks to establish trust…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-16 Frank Li , Prateek Mittal , Matthew Caesar , Nikita Borisov

Sybil attacks are becoming increasingly widespread, and pose a significant threat to online social systems; a single adversary can inject multiple colluding identities in the system to compromise security and privacy. Recent works have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Peng Gao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Sanjeev Kulkarni , Kurt Thomas , Prateek Mittal

Detecting fake users (also called Sybils) in online social networks is a basic security research problem. State-of-the-art approaches rely on a large amount of manually labeled users as a training set. These approaches suffer from three key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Binghui Wang , Le Zhang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

This paper presents SYBILGAT, a novel approach to Sybil detection in social networks using Graph Attention Networks (GATs). Traditional methods for Sybil detection primarily leverage structural properties of networks; however, they tend to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Stuart Heeb , Andreas Plesner , Roger Wattenhofer

Sybil detection in social networks is a basic security research problem. Structure-based methods have been shown to be promising at detecting Sybils. Existing structure-based methods can be classified into Random Walk (RW)-based methods and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Binghui Wang , Jinyuan Jia , Le Zhang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Any decentralised distributed network is particularly vulnerable to the Sybil attack wherein a malicious node masquerades as several different nodes, called Sybil nodes, simultaneously in an attempt to disrupt the proper functioning of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Nitish Balachandran , Sugata Sanyal

We investigate the problem of sybil (fake account) detection in social networks from a graph algorithms perspective, where graph structural information is used to classify users as sybil and benign. We introduce the novel notion of user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Ali Safarpoor Dehkordi , Ahad N. Zehmakan

In federated learning, machine learning and deep learning models are trained globally on distributed devices. The state-of-the-art privacy-preserving technique in the context of federated learning is user-level differential privacy.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yupeng Jiang , Yong Li , Yipeng Zhou , Xi Zheng

Internet of things (IoT) connects all items to the Internet through information-sensing devices to exchange information for intelligent identification and management. Sybil attack is a famous and crippling attack in IoT. Most of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Manli Yuan , Liwei Lin , Zhengyu Wu , Xiucai Ye

Sybil attacks pose a significant threat to federated learning, as malicious nodes can collaborate and gain a majority, thereby overwhelming the system. Therefore, it is essential to develop countermeasures that ensure the security of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Qi Xiong , Hai Dong , Nasrin Sohrabi , Zahir Tari

Online social networks (OSNs) are threatened by Sybil attacks, which create fake accounts (also called Sybils) on OSNs and use them for various malicious activities. Therefore, Sybil detection is a fundamental task for OSN security. Most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Satoshi Furutani , Toshiki Shibahara , Mitsuaki Akiyama , Masaki Aida

Federated learning is a privacy-enforcing machine learning technology but suffers from limited scalability. This limitation mostly originates from the internet connection and memory capacity of the central parameter server, and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Thomas Werthenbach , Johan Pouwelse

This paper reviews the Sybil attack in social networks, which has the potential to compromise the whole distributed network. In the Sybil attack, the malicious user claims multiple identities to compromise the network. Sybil attacks can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Rupesh Gunturu

Being a volunteer-run, distributed anonymity network, Tor is vulnerable to Sybil attacks. Little is known about real-world Sybils in the Tor network, and we lack practical tools and methods to expose Sybil attacks. In this work, we develop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Philipp Winter , Roya Ensafi , Karsten Loesing , Nick Feamster

Vehicular communications play a substantial role in providing safety transportation by means of safety message exchange. Researchers have proposed several solutions for securing safety messages. Protocols based on a fixed key infrastructure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Mina Rahbari , Mohammad Ali Jabreil Jamali

In many online domains, Sybil networks -- or cases where a single user assumes multiple identities -- is a pervasive feature. This complicates experiments, as off-the-shelf regression estimators at least assume known network topologies (if…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-09 Nihar Shah

Sybil attacks, in which fake or duplicate identities (\emph{sybils}) infiltrate an online community, pose a serious threat to such communities, as they might tilt community-wide decisions in their favor. While the extensive research on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Gal Shahaf , Ehud Shapiro , Nimrod Talmon

Restaking protocols expand validator responsibilities beyond consensus, but their security depends on resistance to Sybil attacks. We introduce a formal framework for Sybil-proofness in restaking networks, distinguishing between two types…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Tarun Chitra , Paolo Penna , Manvir Schneider

P2P systems are highly susceptible to Sybil attacks, in which an attacker creates a large number of identities and uses them to control a substantial fraction of the system. Persea is the most recent approach towards designing a social…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen , Matthew Wright
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