RT Journal Article
T1 A meta-heuristic learning approach for the non-intrusive detection of impersonation attacks in social networks
A1 Villar-Rodriguez, Esther
A1 Ser, Javier Del
A1 Gil-Lopez, Sergio
A1 Bilbao, Miren Nekane
A1 Salcedo-Sanz, Sancho
AB Cyber attacks have recently gained momentum in the research community as a sharply concerning phenomenon further ignited by the proliferation of social networks, which unfold a variety of ways for cybercriminals to access compromised information of their users. This paper gravitates on impersonation attacks, whose motivation may go beyond economic interests of the attacker towards getting unauthorised access to information and contacts, as often occurs between teenagers and early users of social platforms. This manuscript proposes a meta-heuristically optimised learning model as the algorithmic core of a non-intrusive detection system that relies exclusively on connection time features to detect evidences of an impersonation attack. The proposed scheme hinges on the K-Means clustering approach applied to a set of time features specially tailored to characterise the usage of users, which are weighted prior to the clustering under detection performance maximisation criteria. The obtained results shed light on the potentiality of the proposed methodology for its practical application to real social networks.
SN 1758-0366
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/3237
UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/3237
LA eng
NO Villar-Rodriguez , E , Ser , J D , Gil-Lopez , S , Bilbao , M N & Salcedo-Sanz , S 2017 , ' A meta-heuristic learning approach for the non-intrusive detection of impersonation attacks in social networks ' , International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation , vol. 10 , no. 2 , pp. 109-118 . https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBIC.2017.085891
NO Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
DS TECNALIA Publications
RD 28 jul 2024