Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today's Web. Politicians,
celebrities, revolutionists, and others use OSNs as a podium to deliver their message to …

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have attracted millions of active users and have become an
integral part of today's web ecosystem. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, OSNs can be …

Online social networks (OSNs) are increasingly threatened by social bots which are software-
controlled OSN accounts that mimic human users with malicious intentions. A social botnet …

Online social networks (OSNs) are a major component of societal digitalization. OSNs alter
how people communicate, make decisions, and form or change their beliefs, attitudes, and …

The ease with which we adopt online personas and relationships has created a soft spot that
cyber criminals are willing to exploit. Advances in artificial intelligence make it feasible to …

Antisocial Networks are distributed systems based on social networking Web sites that can
be exploited by attackers, and directed to carry out network attacks. Malicious users are able …

Botnets have become a major threat in cyberspace. In order to effectively combat botnets,
we need to understand a botnet's Command-and-Control (C&C), which is challenging …

Social bots are automatic or semi-automatic computer programs that mimic humans and/or
human behavior in online social networks. Social bots can attack users (targets) in online …

Bots are, for many Web and social media users, the source of many dangerous attacks or
the carrier of unwanted messages, such as spam. Nevertheless, crawlers and software …

While most online social media accounts are controlled by humans, these platforms also
host automated agents called social bots or sybil accounts. Recent literature reported on …