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Spam mitigation can be broadly classified into two main approaches: a) centralized security infrastructures that rely on a limited number of trusted monitors to detect and report malicious traffic; and b) highly distributed systems that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-08-28 Michael Sirivianos , Xiaowei Yang , Kyungbaek Kim

Machine unlearning for security is studied in this context. Several spam email detection methods exist, each of which employs a different algorithm to detect undesired spam emails. But these models are vulnerable to attacks. Many attackers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Nishchal Parne , Kyathi Puppaala , Nithish Bhupathi , Ripon Patgiri

Unsolicited bulk email (aka. spam) is a major problem on the Internet. To counter spam, several techniques, ranging from spam filters to mail protocol extensions like hashcash, have been proposed. In this paper we investigate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Flavio D. Garcia , Jaap-Henk Hoepman

The identification of spam messages on social networks is a very challenging task. Social media sites like Twitter \& Facebook attracts a lot of users and companies to advertise and attract users of personal gains. These advertisements most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Prakamya Mishra

Nowadays, a big part of people rely on available content in social media in their decisions (e.g. reviews and feedback on a topic or product). The possibility that anybody can leave a review provide a golden opportunity for spammers to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Saeedreza Shehnepoor , Mostafa Salehi , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi

Web spam is a big problem for search engine users in World Wide Web. They use deceptive techniques to achieve high rankings. Although many researchers have presented the different approach for classification and web spam detection still it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Hamed Jelodar , Yongli Wang , Chi Yuan , Xiaohui Jiang

We evaluate empirically a scheme for combining classifiers, known as stacked generalization, in the context of anti-spam filtering, a novel cost-sensitive application of text categorization. Unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "spam", floods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 G. Sakkis , I. Androutsopoulos , G. Paliouras , V. Karkaletsis , C. D. Spyropoulos , P. Stamatopoulos

Image spam emails are often used to evade text-based spam filters that detect spam emails with their frequently used keywords. In this paper, we propose a new image spam email detection tool called DeepCapture using a convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Bedeuro Kim , Sharif Abuadbba , Hyoungshick Kim

Spam emails are unsolicited, annoying and sometimes harmful messages which may contain malware, phishing or hoaxes. Unlike most studies that address the design of efficient anti-spam filters, we approach the spam email problem from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 F. Janez-Martino , R. Alaiz-Rodriguez , V. Gonzalez-Castro , E. Fidalgo , E. Alegre

The increase in people's use of mobile messaging services has led to the spread of social engineering attacks like phishing, considering that spam text is one of the main factors in the dissemination of phishing attacks to steal sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Mai A. Shaaban , Yasser F. Hassan , Shawkat K. Guirguis

In This paper we present a novel approach to spam filtering and demonstrate its applicability with respect to SMS messages. Our approach requires minimum features engineering and a small set of la- belled data samples. Features are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Noura Al Moubayed , Toby Breckon , Peter Matthews , A. Stephen McGough

We present an approach to email filtering based on the suffix tree data structure. A method for the scoring of emails using the suffix tree is developed and a number of scoring and score normalisation functions are tested. Our results show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Rajesh M. Pampapathi , Boris Mirkin , Mark Levene

Emails and SMSs are the most popular tools in today communications, and as the increase of emails and SMSs users are increase, the number of spams is also increases. Spam is any kind of unwanted, unsolicited digital communication that gets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Thaer Sahmoud , Mohammad Mikki

Text-based communication is highly favoured as a communication method, especially in business environments. As a result, it is often abused by sending malicious messages, e.g., spam emails, to deceive users into relaying personal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Annalisa Occhipinti , Louis Rogers , Claudio Angione

Email spam detection is a critical task in modern communication systems, essential for maintaining productivity, security, and user experience. Traditional machine learning and deep learning approaches, while effective in static settings,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Ghazaleh SHirvani , Saeid Ghasemshirazi

The email is used daily by millions of people to communicate around the globe and it is a mission-critical application for many businesses. Over the last decade, unsolicited bulk email has become a major problem for email users. An…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-10-15 Carlos M. Lorenzetti , Rocío L. Cecchini , Ana G. Maguitman , András A. Benczúr

Social spam produces a great amount of noise on social media services such as Twitter, which reduces the signal-to-noise ratio that both end users and data mining applications observe. Existing techniques on social spam detection have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Bo Wang , Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter

Phishing attacks are one of the trending cyber attacks that apply socially engineered messages that are communicated to people from professional hackers aiming at fooling users to reveal their sensitive information, the most popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Adwan Yasin , Abdelmunem Abuhasan

Recent spam email techniques exploit visual effects in text messages, such as poisoning text, obfuscating words, and hidden text salting techniques. These effects were able to evade spam detection techniques based on the text. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ali Hossary , Stefano Tomasin

Email tracking allows email senders to collect fine-grained behavior and location data on email recipients, who are uniquely identifiable via their email address. Such tracking invades user privacy in that email tracking techniques gather…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Johannes Haupt , Benedict Bender , Benjamin Fabian , Stefan Lessmann