no code implementations • 6 Feb 2024 • Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Navid Shadman Bhuiyan, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram, Salil S. Kanhere
To address these challenges, we propose a novel framework for social Bot detection with Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning (BotSSCL).
no code implementations • 24 Aug 2023 • Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram, Salil S. Kanhere
While researchers from various disciplines have investigated different manipulation-triggering elements of OSNs (such as understanding information diffusion on OSNs or detecting automated behavior of accounts), these works have not been consolidated to present a comprehensive overview of the interconnections among these elements.
no code implementations • 7 Sep 2022 • Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Bibhas Sharma, Ishan Karunanayake, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram, Salil S. Kanhere
Existing work neglects the presence of bots that act as a catalyst in the spread and focuses on fake news detection in 'articles shared in posts' rather than the post (textual) content.
no code implementations • 7 May 2020 • Jia-Wei Zhao, Rahat Masood, Suranga Seneviratne
Network security has become an area of significant importance more than ever as highlighted by the eye-opening numbers of data breaches, attacks on critical infrastructure, and malware/ransomware/cryptojacker attacks that are reported almost every day.