Behavioral Analysis to Detect Social Spammer in Online Social Networks (OSNs)

Somya Ranjan Sahoo, B. B. Gupta, Chang Choi, Ching Hsien Hsu, Kwok Tai Chui

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Abstract

The faster and regular usage of Web 2.0 technologies like Online Social Networks (OSNs) addicted to millions of users worldwide. This popularity made target for spammers and fake users to spread phishing attack, viruses, false news, pornography and unwanted advertisements like URLs, images and videos etc. The present paper proposes a behavioral analysis-based framework for classifying spam contents in real time by aggregating machine learning techniques and genetic algorithm. The main procedure of the work is, firstly based on social networks spam policy, novel profile based and content-based features are proposed to facilitate spam detection. Secondly, accumulate a dataset from various social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram including spam and non-spam profiles. For suitable feature selections, we have used a genetic algorithm and various classifiers for decision making. In order to attest the effectiveness of our proposed framework, we have compared with existing techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Data and Social Networks - 9th International Conference, CSoNet 2020, Proceedings
EditorsSriram Chellappan, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, NhatHai Phan
Pages321-332
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event9th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2020 - Dallas, United States
Duration: 11 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12575 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDallas
Period11/12/2013/12/20

Keywords

  • Facebook
  • Machine learning
  • Online social networks
  • PSO

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