SLEUTH: Single-publisher attack detection Using correlation Hunting
Summary: Detects single-publisher ad fraud by correlating traffic patterns across many machines in high-cardinality data. Proposes approximate SLEUTH to efficiently hunt cross-machine correlations and detect single-publisher fraud; validated on FastClick. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Ahmed Metwally
- 2. Fatih Emekci
- 3. Divyakant Agrawal
- 4. Amr El Abbadi
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,715 | V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00010803271 |
| 7,748 | GeoScope: Online Detection of Geo-Correlated Information Trends in Social Networks | 2014 | VLDB | 4.661103e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 166 | Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00039361552 |
| 865 | What’s Hot and What’s Not: Tracking Most Frequent Items Dynamically | 2003 | PODS | 0.00015808172 |
| 4,334 | Diamond in the Rough: Finding Hierarchical Heavy Hitters in Multi-Dimensional Data | 2004 | SIGMOD | 6.2798179e-05 |
| 5,016 | Finding Hierarchical Heavy Hitters in Data Streams | 2003 | VLDB | 5.7580375e-05 |
| 12,562 | Using Association Rules for Fraud Detection in Web Advertising Networks | 2005 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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