%0 Conference Paper %1 spam-ghosh %A Ghosh, Saptarshi %A Korlam, Gautam %A Ganguly, Niloy %B Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web %C New York, NY, USA %D 2011 %I ACM %K spam twitter %P 41--42 %R 10.1145/1963192.1963214 %T Spammers' networks within online social networks: a case-study on Twitter %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1963192.1963214 %X We analyze the strategies employed by contemporary spammers in Online Social Networks (OSNs) by identifying a set of spam-accounts in Twitter and monitoring their link-creation strategies. Our analysis reveals that spammers adopt intelligent 'collaborative' strategies of link-formation to avoid detection and to increase the reach of their generated spam, such as forming 'spam-farms' and creating large number of links with targeted legitimate users. The observations are verified through the analysis of a giant 'spam-farm' embedded within the Twitter OSN. %@ 978-1-4503-0637-9

@inproceedings{spam-ghosh, abstract = {We analyze the strategies employed by contemporary spammers in Online Social Networks (OSNs) by identifying a set of spam-accounts in Twitter and monitoring their link-creation strategies. Our analysis reveals that spammers adopt intelligent 'collaborative' strategies of link-formation to avoid detection and to increase the reach of their generated spam, such as forming 'spam-farms' and creating large number of links with targeted legitimate users. The observations are verified through the analysis of a giant 'spam-farm' embedded within the Twitter OSN.}, acmid = {1963214}, added-at = {2011-10-17T17:56:02.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Ghosh, Saptarshi and Korlam, Gautam and Ganguly, Niloy}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d8eeb2a64e8f1e389024f779fb76b103/dimitargn}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web}, description = {Spammers' networks within online social networks}, doi = {10.1145/1963192.1963214}, interhash = {f1cbc0d82e3d72982b4f5bdaa4ac4986}, intrahash = {d8eeb2a64e8f1e389024f779fb76b103}, isbn = {978-1-4503-0637-9}, keywords = {spam twitter}, location = {Hyderabad, India}, numpages = {2}, pages = {41--42}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {WWW '11}, timestamp = {2011-10-17T17:56:02.000+0200}, title = {Spammers' networks within online social networks: a case-study on Twitter}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1963192.1963214}, year = 2011 }