Uncovering the wholesale industry of social media fraud: from botnet to bulk reseller panels

Presented at VB2018, Oct. 4, 2018, 2 p.m. (30 minutes)

There is no doubt that there has been an increasing interest in understanding the industry of social media fraud (SMF), which is the process of creating fake 'likes' and 'follows' on online social networks (OSN), and its potential deceptive capabilities. This paper explores an undocumented segment of this industry: wholesaling, from botnet supply operations to bulk reselling.

Presenters:

• Masarah Paquet-Clouston - GoSecure
  Masarah Paquet-Clouston Masarah Paquet-Clouston is a security researcher at GoSecure, a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University in criminology, and one of Canada's decorated 150 scientific innovators. With her background in economics and criminology, she specializes in the study of markets behind illicit online activities. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, such as Social Networks, Global Crime and the International Journal for the Study of Drug Policy, and she has presented at various international conferences including WEIS, Black Hat Europe, Botconf and the American Society of Criminology. @MasarahClouston

Links:

• https://www.virusbulletin.com/conference/vb2018/abstracts/uncovering-wholesale-industry-social-media-fraud-botnet-bulk-reseller-panels
• https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/conference_slides/2018/Paquet-Clouston-VB100-SocialMediaFraud.pdf
• https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2018/11/vb2018-paper-uncovering-wholesale-industry-social-media-fraud-botnets-bulk-reseller-panels/

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