Detection of Fake Profiles in Social Media - Literature Review

Aleksei Romanov, Alexander Semenov, Oleksiy Mazhelis, Jari Veijalainen

2017

Abstract

False identities play an important role in advanced persisted threats and are also involved in other malicious activities. The present article focuses on the literature review of the state-of-the-art research aimed at detecting fake profiles in social media. The approaches to detecting fake social media accounts can be classified into the approaches aimed on analysing individual accounts, and the approaches capturing the coordinated activities spanning a large group of accounts. The article sheds light on the role of fake identities in advanced persistent threats and covers the mentioned approaches of detecting fake social media accounts.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Romanov A., Semenov A., Mazhelis O. and Veijalainen J. (2017). Detection of Fake Profiles in Social Media - Literature Review . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-246-2, pages 363-369. DOI: 10.5220/0006362103630369

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist17,
author={Aleksei Romanov and Alexander Semenov and Oleksiy Mazhelis and Jari Veijalainen},
title={Detection of Fake Profiles in Social Media - Literature Review},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2017},
pages={363-369},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006362103630369},
isbn={978-989-758-246-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Detection of Fake Profiles in Social Media - Literature Review
SN - 978-989-758-246-2
AU - Romanov A.
AU - Semenov A.
AU - Mazhelis O.
AU - Veijalainen J.
PY - 2017
SP - 363
EP - 369
DO - 10.5220/0006362103630369