METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING MALICIOUS ACCOUNT

A method and an apparatus for identifying a malicious account are disclosed. Implementation of the method includes: using an effective reading speed of an account in a known normal account set as a training sample, and determining distribution data of the effective reading speed of the account in the normal account set; determining an upper reading speed threshold for the account in the normal account set according to the distribution data; acquiring a reading speed of a to-be-determined account; and determining, if the reading speed of the to-be-determined account exceeds the reading speed threshold, that the to-be-determined account is a malicious account. In the method, a fixed threshold set manually is no longer used, and a threshold is set on a statistics-based theoretical basis and is no longer randomly set manually; therefore, a malicious account for fake book viewing can be accurately identified.