Mass Registration
Sophisticated online attacks begin well before fraudulent activity occurs or damage is done. Fraudsters start by mass registering an army of accounts and then camouflaging them with real-looking user activity. When these accounts are later used for an attack, they are much harder to detect with existing solutions. DataVisor’s Unsupervised Machine Learning Engine is uniquely capable of detecting these mass-registered accounts because it uncovers the hidden connections between accounts, even if those accounts have not yet done any damage or started their attack. This allows companies to quarantine or add extra authentication steps to suspicious accounts and stop them before they strike.
How Fraudsters Mass Register Accounts
Fake User Activity
Attackers simulate user activity by uploading stolen photos and content from other sites, making them appear real even to human reviewers.
Device Obfuscation
Fraudsters utilize mobile device flashing and virtual machines to appear as if they are registering from many different devices.
Stolen Identities
Attackers use readily-available stolen credentials or information from data breaches to create authentic-looking new accounts.
IP Obfuscation
Proxies, VPNs, and cloud-hosting services allow attackers to evade IP or location blacklists and digital-fingerprint solutions.
How Unsupervised Machine Learning Stops Mass Registration
There are many challenges when it comes to mass registration detection. For one, the amount of data is limited at registration. Further, falsely rejecting a real customer at account opening can prevent a legitimate person from signing up with the service. DataVisor’s Unsupervised Machine Learning Engine looks at a new registration in the context of millions of recent registrations, deriving and analyzing a rich array of features, in order to determine if there are any suspicious similarities between the newly registered accounts. This allows the UML Engine to adapt in real-time as fraudsters change their attack techniques, keeping your online service free of fake accounts and the downstream havoc they attempt to conduct.
Early Detection
Detect malicious intent at point of registration, preventing downstream damage
Accuracy and Coverage
Analyze hidden connections between accounts to detect more attacks while lowering false positives.
Unknown Threat Detection
Uncover new and evolving attack patterns without any training data or labels.
Learn More About How DataVisor Stops Mass Registration
SPECIAL REPORT
Gain unprecedented insight into the behaviors and techniques fraudsters use to evade detection.
CASE STUDY
Momo uses DataVisor’s Detection Solution to detect mass account registration and account takeovers.
WEBINAR
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The DataVisor Detection Solution
Unsupervised Machine Learning Engine
Predict new, unknown threats without labels or training data by analyzing hundreds of millions of accounts and events simultaneously using the industry’s most advanced unsupervised learning technology.
Supervised Machine Learning Engine
Use industry leading supervised machine learning algorithms to augment the unsupervised machine learning detection with client-provided labels.
Automated Rules Engine
Generate and deprecate rules automatically, lowering maintenance costs and improving results explainability.
DataVisor Global Intelligence Network
Aggregate and analyze the industry’s broadest array of digital fingerprints and signals from billions of users across a variety of industries.
Account linkage view to discover hidden links among malicious accounts
What’s Happening With Mass Registration
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How to Register Millions of Fake Accounts with Ease
Fake accounts are a bigger problem than ever. With so many new security, why are they still so prevalent? Recent studies show that approximately 10 percent of accounts on social media sites are fake. Other reports are more drastic: Instagram’s crackdown on spam fake accounts in 2014 exposed 29 percent of followers of the Instagram official account as fake.
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Infographic: The Online Fraudster’s Tool Shed
DataVisor releases a new infographic highlighting the tools fraudsters use to build their armies of attackers. From their email addresses to their use of cloud services, we know what they are doing when they are DIY-ing an attack.
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Twitter Bots: These are the Droids You’re Looking For
Wondering if your company has any crime rings sleeping among your users? Most will acknowledge that there are likely some accounts lurking here or there, but may not realize that it’s a big problem. This attitude is held by a lot of companies, large and small, and many think they have it under control. Think again.
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