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On Collaborative Predictive Blacklisting
Luca Melis, Apostolos Pyrgelis, Emiliano De Cristofaro
Collaborative predictive blacklisting (CPB) allows to forecast future attack sources based on logs and alerts contributed by multiple organizations. Unfortunately, however, researc…
LOBO -- Evaluation of Generalization Deficiencies in Twitter Bot Classifiers
Juan Echeverría, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis +3
Botnets in online social networks are increasingly often affecting the regular flow of discussion, attacking regular users and their posts, spamming them with irrelevant or offensi…
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and manipulate public opinion. This prompts the need to study their propagation, evolution, and influence across the Web. In this paper…
"You Know What to Do": Proactive Detection of YouTube Videos Targeted by Coordinated Hate Attacks
Enrico Mariconti, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Jeremy Blackburn +5
Video sharing platforms like YouTube are increasingly targeted by aggression and hate attacks. Prior work has shown how these attacks often take place as a result of "raids," i.e.,…
Exploiting Unintended Feature Leakage in Collaborative Learning
Luca Melis, Congzheng Song, Emiliano De Cristofaro +1
Collaborative machine learning and related techniques such as federated learning allow multiple participants, each with his own training dataset, to build a joint model by training…
Of Wines and Reviews: Measuring and Modeling the Vivino Wine Social Network
Neema Kotonya, Paolo De Cristofaro, Emiliano De Cristofaro
This paper presents an analysis of social experiences around wine consumption through the lens of Vivino, a social network for wine enthusiasts with over 26 million users worldwide…