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Publication · 2026-08-11

Breaking and Defending LLM-Powered Social Media Bot Detection Systems

A study of attacks and defences for language-model systems that identify social media bots.

Nof Orenstein, Dr. Yoni Birman

Pragmatic Cybersecurity, 2026, 1(2), Article 10

The research

This work examines ways to manipulate bot detectors through rewritten content and prompt injection. It evaluates defensive methods and introduces LSABRE, an ensemble approach to improving robustness.

Publication

The journal article extends a presentation at ACISP 2026. It was published on 11 August 2026.

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