Hiding inside the mutually-beneficial model of online crowdsourcing are malicious campaigns, which target manipulating search results or leaving fake reviews on the web. Crowdsourced manipulation reduces the quality and trustworthiness of online social media, threatening the security of cyberspace as a whole. To mitigate this problem, we developed a classification model which filters out malicious campaigns from nearly 450,000 campaigns on popular crowdsourcing platforms. We then presented this blacklist on a website, where parties adversely affected by malicious campaigns, such as targeted websites owners, legitimate workers, owners of the crowdsourcing platforms, can use this website as a tool to identify and moderate potential malicious campaigns from the web.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Thuc Hoang, Quyen Dinh
• Ha, Trang Dieu

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-031819-115232

Advisor

• Lee, Kyumin

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-03-18

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright