In this thesis' work, various aspects of the Steem blockchain and of the Steemit social network which relies on it have been considered. This blockchain has a rewarding system that can be exploited by the users of the social network; for this reason, a peculiar figure was born in this context: the bot. It performs various kind of operations for a fee so that the content voted, commented or shared by a bot receives a visibility boost; this results in an increase of the chances, for the author of the curated content, to get more movements linked to that content, so that he earns as much as possible. One of the main tasks of the thesis has been to correlate the rewarding system with the quality of the users' contents. In order to perform a tas...
Despite the increase in attacks and other security challenges in cyberspace, we require new methods ...
Social bots are undermining trust in social media. They spread low-credibility content, fake news, a...
As e-commerce platforms have grown in popularity, new difficulties have emerged, such as the growing...
Since their introduction, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have transformed the way people interact wit...
Surfing Online Social Media (OSM) websites have become a daily activity for a large number of people...
In this thesis, we propose machine learning techniques to detecting and characterizing malicious bot...
In recent years, social botnets have become a major security threat to both online social networking...
Dans cette thèse nous proposons des techniques d'apprentissage automatique ayant comme but la détect...
This thesis have enlightened the topic of social bots and how to indicate their presence. As a pract...
Social bots have been on the rise since the creation of Online Social Networks (OSN). These automate...
Malicious actors create inauthentic social media accounts controlled in part by algorithms, known a...
When a bot master uses a control and commander (C&C) mechanism to assemble a large number of bot...
Automated Twitter accounts, or Twitter bots, have gained increased attention lately. In particular, ...
Recently, studies on the characterization and detection of social bots were published at an impressi...
Online Social Networking platforms (OSNs) have become part of people’s everyday life and their usage...
Despite the increase in attacks and other security challenges in cyberspace, we require new methods ...
Social bots are undermining trust in social media. They spread low-credibility content, fake news, a...
As e-commerce platforms have grown in popularity, new difficulties have emerged, such as the growing...
Since their introduction, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have transformed the way people interact wit...
Surfing Online Social Media (OSM) websites have become a daily activity for a large number of people...
In this thesis, we propose machine learning techniques to detecting and characterizing malicious bot...
In recent years, social botnets have become a major security threat to both online social networking...
Dans cette thèse nous proposons des techniques d'apprentissage automatique ayant comme but la détect...
This thesis have enlightened the topic of social bots and how to indicate their presence. As a pract...
Social bots have been on the rise since the creation of Online Social Networks (OSN). These automate...
Malicious actors create inauthentic social media accounts controlled in part by algorithms, known a...
When a bot master uses a control and commander (C&C) mechanism to assemble a large number of bot...
Automated Twitter accounts, or Twitter bots, have gained increased attention lately. In particular, ...
Recently, studies on the characterization and detection of social bots were published at an impressi...
Online Social Networking platforms (OSNs) have become part of people’s everyday life and their usage...
Despite the increase in attacks and other security challenges in cyberspace, we require new methods ...
Social bots are undermining trust in social media. They spread low-credibility content, fake news, a...
As e-commerce platforms have grown in popularity, new difficulties have emerged, such as the growing...