Demystifying the underground ecosystem of account registration bots

Yuhao Gao, Guoai Xu, Li Li, Xiapu Luo, Chenyu Wang, Yulei Sui

Abstract

Member services are a core part of most online systems. For example, member services in online social networks and video platforms make it possible to serve users customized content or track their footprint for a recommendation. However, there is a dark side to membership that lurks behind influencer marketing, coupon harvesting, and spreading fake news. All these activities rely heavily on owning masses of fake accounts, and to create new accounts efficiently, malicious registrants use automated registration bots with anti-human verification services that can easily bypass a website’s security strategies.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Gao-al:FSE22,
  author    = {Yuhao Gao and
               Guoai Xu and
               Li Li and
               Xiapu Luo and
               Chenyu Wang and
               Yulei Sui},
  title     = {Demystifying the underground ecosystem of account registration bots},
  booktitle = {{ESEC/SIGSOFT} {FSE}},
  pages     = {897--909},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2022},
}

Demystifying the underground ecosystem of account registration bots

Abstract

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