Analyzing and Detecting Money-Laundering Accounts in Online Social Networks
Analyzing and Detecting Money-Laundering Accounts in Online Social Networks
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分析和检测在线社交网络中的洗钱账户
DOI:
10.1109/mnet.2017.1700213
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发表时间:
2018-05
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影响因子:
9.3
通讯作者:
Jin Hongbo
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文献类型:
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作者:
Zhou Yadong;Wang Ximi;Zhang Junjie;Zhang Peng;Liu Lili;Jin Huan;Jin Hongbo
Virtual currency in OSNs plays an increasingly important role in supporting various financial activities such as currency exchange, online shopping, and paid games. Users usually purchase virtual currency using real currency. This fact motivates attackers to instrument an army of accounts to collect virtual currency unethically or illegally with no or very low cost and then launder the collected virtual money for massive profit. Such attacks not only introduce significant financial loss of victim users, but also harm the viability of the ecosystem. It is therefore of central importance to detect malicious OSN accounts that engage in laundering virtual currency. To this end, we extensively study the behavior of both malicious and benign accounts based on operation data collected from Tencent QQ, one of the largest OSNs in the world. Then, we devise multi-faceted features that characterize accounts from three aspects: account viability, transaction sequences, and spatial correlation among accounts. Finally, we propose a detection method by integrating these features using a statistical classifier, which can achieve a high detection rate of 94.2 percen
影响因子:
5
作者:
Fu, Hao;Xie, Xing;Chen, Enhong
通讯作者:
Chen, Enhong