Malicious users' circle detection in social network based on spatio-temporal co-occurrence

Abstract

Online social networks have witnessed massive increase from the point of view of users during last decade. However, it is also becoming center of attraction for spammers. It is a complex problem to trace spammers on a large scale. Since spammers communicate covertly so by analyzing simple graph of social network, they cannot be identified. In order to find the circle of people involved in the malicious messaging, we associate people on the basis of their spatio-temporal co-occurrence i.e. people frequently communicating with each other. In this paper, we associate people on the basis of their spatio-temporal co-occurrence and find the users involved in malicious communications.