Classification of Cybercrime Indicators in Open Social Data

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Abstract

Posting information on social media platforms is a popular activity through which personal and confidential information can leak into the public domain. Consequently, social media can contain information that provides an indication that an organization has been compromised or suffered a data breach. This paper describes a technique for inferring if an organization has been compromised from information posted on social media. The proposed strategy forms the basis of an alarm system which generates an alert for possible unreported cybercrime incidents. The proposed strategy used two social media cybercrime related datasets that were collected from the Irish and New York regions from financial organizations’ Twitter accounts. The Tweets are labelled as either containing cybercrime indicators or not, and then the cybercrime Tweets were labelled further into crime categories. A deep dense pyramidal Neural Network model is used to classify the Tweets. This approach achieves an AUC of 0.85±0.03 which outperforms the baseline of deep convolutional neural networks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Management and Big Data - 7th Annual International Conference, SIMBig 2020, Proceedings
EditorsJuan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, Jorge Carlos Valverde-Rebaza, Eduardo Díaz, Hugo Alatrista-Salas
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages317-332
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783030762278
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event7th Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 1 Oct 20203 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1410 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference7th Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period1/10/203/10/20

Keywords

  • Cybercrime classification
  • Data breaches
  • Open social data
  • Pyramidal deep learning model

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