Egele, M;
Stringhini, G;
Kruegel, C;
Vigna, G;
(2017)
Towards Detecting Compromised Accounts on Social Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
, 14
(4)
pp. 447-460.
10.1109/TDSC.2015.2479616.
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Abstract
Compromising social network accounts has become a profitable course of action for cybercriminals. By hijacking control of a popular media or business account, attackers can distribute their malicious messages or disseminate fake information to a large user base. The impacts of these incidents range from a tarnished reputation to multi-billion dollar monetary losses on financial markets. In our previous work, we demonstrated how we can detect large-scale compromises (i.e., so-called campaigns) of regular online social network users. In this work, we show how we can use similar techniques to identify compromises of individual high-profile accounts. High-profile accounts frequently have one characteristic that makes this detection reliable -- they show consistent behavior over time. We show that our system, were it deployed, would have been able to detect and prevent three real-world attacks against popular companies and news agencies. Furthermore, our system, in contrast to popular media, would not have fallen for a staged compromise instigated by a US restaurant chain for publicity reasons.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Towards Detecting Compromised Accounts on Social Networks |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TDSC.2015.2479616 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2015.2479616 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. © 2015 IEEE. |
| Keywords: | Twitter, feature extraction, facebook, training, reliability, uniform resource locators |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1470859 |
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