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 Attackers 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
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
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