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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Content-driven detection of campaigns in social media
We study the problem of detecting coordinated free text campaigns in large-scale social media. These campaigns – ranging from coordinated spam messages to promotional and advert...
Kyumin Lee, James Caverlee, Zhiyuan Cheng, Daniel ...
NSDI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Characterizing Botnets from Email Spam Records
We develop new techniques to map botnet membership using traces of spam email. To group bots into botnets we look for multiple bots participating in the same spam email campaign. ...
Li Zhuang, John Dunagan, Daniel R. Simon, Helen J....
CEAS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Survey of Modern Spam Tools
Over the past 5 years, spam sending technology has improved dramatically. Static messages sent opportunistically through misconfigured hosts have evolved into dynamically generate...
Henry Stern
NSDI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Peeking into Spammer Behavior from a Unique Vantage Point
Understanding the spammer behavior is a critical step in the long-lasting battle against email spams. Previous studies have focused on setting up honeypots or email sinkholes cont...
Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, Zhuoqing Morley Mao
CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Spamalytics: an empirical analysis of spam marketing conversion
The "conversion rate" of spam -- the probability that an unsolicited e-mail will ultimately elicit a "sale" -- underlies the entire spam value proposition. How...
Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko...