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The mental health of social media users has started more and more to be put at risk by harmful, hateful, and offensive content. In this paper, we propose \textsc{StopHC}, a harmful content detection and mitigation architecture for social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Ana-Teodora Constantinescu , Elena-Simona Apostol

CAPTCHAs are widely employed for distinguishing humans from automated bots online. However, current vision based CAPTCHAs face escalating security risks: traditional attacks continue to bypass many deployed CAPTCHA schemes, and recent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ziqi Ding , Shangzhi Xu , Wei Song , Yuekang Li

Following the principle of to set one's own spear against one's own shield, we study how to design adversarial CAPTCHAs in this paper. We first identify the similarity and difference between adversarial CAPTCHA generation and existing hot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Chenghui Shi , Xiaogang Xu , Shouling Ji , Kai Bu , Jianhai Chen , Raheem Beyah , Ting Wang

Recently, social media platforms are heavily moderated to prevent the spread of online hate speech, which is usually fertile in toxic words and is directed toward an individual or a community. Owing to such heavy moderation, newer and more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Punyajoy Saha , Kiran Garimella , Narla Komal Kalyan , Saurabh Kumar Pandey , Pauras Mangesh Meher , Binny Mathew , Animesh Mukherjee

The misuse of large language models (LLMs), such as academic plagiarism, has driven the development of detectors to identify LLM-generated texts. To bypass these detectors, paraphrase attacks have emerged to purposely rewrite these texts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hao Fang , Jiawei Kong , Tianqu Zhuang , Yixiang Qiu , Kuofeng Gao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Yaowei Wang , Min Zhang

The proliferation of harmful content on online platforms is a major societal problem, which comes in many different forms including hate speech, offensive language, bullying and harassment, misinformation, spam, violence, graphic content,…

Online social networks (OSNs) are ubiquitous attracting millions of users all over the world. Being a popular communication media OSNs are exploited in a variety of cyber attacks. In this article, we discuss the Chameleon attack technique,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Aviad Elyashar , Sagi Uziel , Abigail Paradise , Rami Puzis

The rise in popularity of text-to-image generative artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted widespread public interest. We demonstrate that this technology can be attacked to generate content that subtly manipulates its users. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a type of challenge-response test widely used in authentication systems. A well-known challenge it faces is the CAPTCHA farm, where workers are hired to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Rui Jin , Yong Liao , Pengyuan Zhou

Facebook is the world's largest Online Social Network, having more than 1 billion users. Like most other social networks, Facebook is home to various categories of hostile entities who abuse the platform by posting malicious content. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Prateek Dewan , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

While DeepFake applications are becoming popular in recent years, their abuses pose a serious privacy threat. Unfortunately, most related detection algorithms to mitigate the abuse issues are inherently vulnerable to adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xiangtao Meng , Li Wang , Shanqing Guo , Lei Ju , Qingchuan Zhao

CAPTCHAs are designed to prevent malicious bot programs from abusing websites. Most online service providers deploy audio CAPTCHAs as an alternative to text and image CAPTCHAs for visually impaired users. However, prior research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Md Imran Hossen , Xiali Hei

Contemporary computing employs cache hierarchy to fill the speed gap between processors and main memories. In order to optimise system performance, Last Level Caches(LLC) are shared among all the cores. Cache sharing has made them an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jaspinder Kaur , Shirshendu Das

In recent years, there has been an explosive growth in multimodal learning. Image captioning, a classical multimodal task, has demonstrated promising applications and attracted extensive research attention. However, recent studies have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Wenshu Fan , Hongwei Li , Wenbo Jiang , Meng Hao , Shui Yu , Xiao Zhang

When AI agents retrieve and reason over external documents, adversaries can manipulate the data they receive to subvert their behaviour. Previous research has studied indirect prompt injection, where the attacker injects malicious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Michael Schlichtkrull

The growing use of social media has led to the development of several Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing(NLP) tools to process the unprecedented amount of social media content to make actionable decisions. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Izzat Alsmadi , Kashif Ahmad , Mahmoud Nazzal , Firoj Alam , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Abdallah Khreishah , Abdulelah Algosaibi

The prevalence of harmful content on social media platforms poses significant risks to users and society, necessitating more effective and scalable content moderation strategies. Current approaches rely on human moderators, supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Akash Bonagiri , Lucen Li , Rajvardhan Oak , Zeerak Babar , Magdalena Wojcieszak , Anshuman Chhabra

Modern CAPTCHAs rely heavily on vision tasks that are supposedly hard for computers but easy for humans. However, advances in image recognition models pose a significant threat to such CAPTCHAs. These models can easily be fooled by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yahya Jabary , Andreas Plesner , Turlan Kuzhagaliyev , Roger Wattenhofer

We present the first large-scale analysis of 339 cybercriminal activity channels (CACs). Followed by over 23.8 million users, these channels share a wide array of malicious and unethical content with their subscribers, including compromised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Sayak Saha Roy , Elham Pourabbas Vafa , Kobra Khanmohammadi , Shirin Nilizadeh

CAPTCHA(Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) can be used to protect data from auto bots. Countless kinds of CAPTCHAs are thus designed, while we most frequently utilize text-based scheme because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Ye Wang , Mi Lu