# Detecting cyber threats through social network analysis: short survey

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06680 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.06680/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 17 May 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [A Survey of Social Cybersecurity: Techniques for Attack Detection, Evaluations, Challenges, and Future Prospects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.04311/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This article considers a short survey of basic methods of social networks analysis, which are used for detecting cyber threats. The main types of social network threats are presented. Basic methods of graph theory and data mining, that deals with social networks analysis are described. Typical security tasks of social network analysis, such as community detection in network, detection of leaders in communities, detection experts in networks, clustering text information and others are considered.