Stealing Reality
Yaniv Altshuler, Nadav Aharony, Yuval Elovici, Alex Pentland, and, Manuel Cebrian

TL;DR
This paper introduces the concept of 'Stealing Reality,' a malware threat targeting social network data, highlighting its unique dangers and discussing initial analysis and defense strategies.
Contribution
It defines 'Stealing Reality' as a novel form of attack distinct from traditional network attacks and explores its potential forms and implications.
Findings
Initial analysis of SR attack forms
Discussion on detection and defense strategies
Highlighting the increased danger of SR attacks
Abstract
In this paper we discuss the threat of malware targeted at extracting information about the relationships in a real-world social network as well as characteristic information about the individuals in the network, which we dub Stealing Reality. We present Stealing Reality, explain why it differs from traditional types of network attacks, and discuss why its impact is significantly more dangerous than that of other attacks. We also present our initial analysis and results regarding the form that an SR attack might take, with the goal of promoting the discussion of defending against such an attack, or even just detecting the fact that one has already occurred.
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Taxonomy
TopicsNetwork Security and Intrusion Detection · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting · Spam and Phishing Detection
