Researchers develop AI system to detect scam websites in search results

Scam websites tied to online shopping, pet sales, and other e-commerce schemes continue to cause millions in losses each year. Security tools can accurately detect fraudulent sites once they are found, but identifying new ones remains difficult. To close that gap, researchers from Boston University created LOKI, a system that ranks search queries by how likely they are to reveal scams. Using a small seed set of 1,663 confirmed scam domains, LOKI discovered 52,493 previously … More →

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