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Automated Crowdturfing Attacks and Defenses in Online Review Systems
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Malicious crowdsourcing forums are gaining traction as sources of spreading misinformation online, but are limited by the costs of hiring and managing human workers. In this paper, we identify a new class of attacks that leverage deep learning language models (Recurrent Neural Networks or RNNs) to automate the generation of fake online reviews for products and services. Not only are these attacks cheap and therefore more scalable, but they can control rate of content output to eliminate the signature burstiness that makes crowdsourced campaigns easy to detect.
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- Authors
- Yao, Y., Viswanath, B., Cryan, J., Zheng, H., & Zhao, B. Y.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2017-10-30
- Pages
- 1143-1158
- ISSN
- 1543-7221 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2752337926
- Semantic Scholar
- 352b2cfd65b5a1231e5e64bb1b9d6ed71e5a60a2
- Cited by
- 150
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2025: 10 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 17
- FWCI
- 13.86
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- NSF (CNS-1527939, CNS-1705042)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Spam and Phishing Detection
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Keywords
- fake reviews, recurrent neural networks, misinformation, online review systems, attack detection, burstiness
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