In the past years, there has been increasing awareness by the public and policy makers on the potential harm that social network manipulation can produce. Yet, most researchers have looked at the front end of the problem: developing algorithms to flag fake accounts on...
Last Saturday, January 27th, the New York Times published a detailed article on the sales of automated likes and follows by an American company called Demuvi. The same day, a New York attorney general announced that he opened an investigation on the company, which...
For those who missed it, here is the video of our BlackHat Europe 2016 presentation titled EGO-MARKET: When People’s Greed for Fame Benefits Large-Scale Botnets: You can access the full conference paper here.
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