Malware propagation in online social networks

2009 4th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software, MALWARE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 8-14

  Faghani, Mohammad Reza ^a   Saidi, Hossein ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Koobface; Social networks; XSS worms

Indexed keywords

EFFECT OF PARAMETERS; MALICIOUS ACTIVITIES; MALWARE PROPAGATION; NETWORK-BASED; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77950163259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MALWARE.2009.5403023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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