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 ...
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....
Over the past 5 years, spam sending technology has improved dramatically. Static messages sent opportunistically through misconfigured hosts have evolved into dynamically generate...
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
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...