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EDarkFind: Unsupervised Multi-view Learning for Sybil Account Detection
The Web Conference 2020 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2020
  • Ramnath Kumar
  • Shweta Yadav, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Raminta Daniulaityte, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Francois Lamy
  • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Usha Lokala, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Amit Sheth, Wright State University - Main Campus
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
4-20-2020
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Abstract

Darknet crypto markets are online marketplaces using crypto currencies (e.g., Bitcoin, Monero) and advanced encryption techniques to offer anonymity to vendors and consumers trading for illegal goods or services. The exact volume of substances advertised and sold through these crypto markets is difficult to assess, at least partially, because vendors tend to maintain multiple accounts (or Sybil accounts) within and across different crypto markets. Linking these different accounts will allow us to accurately evaluate the volume of substances advertised across the different crypto markets by each vendor. In this paper, we present a multi-view unsupervised framework (eDarkFind) that helps modeling vendor characteristics and facilitates Sybil account detection. We employ a multi-view learning paradigm to generalize and improve the performance by exploiting the diverse views from multiple rich sources such as BERT, stylometric, and location representation. Our model is further tailored to take advantage of domain-specific knowledge such as the Drug Abuse Ontology to take into consideration the substance information. We performed extensive experiments and demonstrated that the multiple views obtained from diverse sources can be effective in linking Sybil accounts. Our proposed eDarkFind model achieves an accuracy of 98% on three real-world datasets which shows the generality of the approach.

DOI
10.1145/3366423.3380263
Citation Information
Ramnath Kumar, Shweta Yadav, Raminta Daniulaityte, Francois Lamy, et al.. "EDarkFind: Unsupervised Multi-view Learning for Sybil Account Detection" The Web Conference 2020 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2020 (2020) p. 1955 - 1965
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/amit_sheth/620/