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The spatial analysis of the malicious Uniform Resource Locators (URLs): 2016 dataset case study
Information, Vol.12(1), 2
2021
Web of Science ID: WOS:000610279600001
Abstract
In this study, we aimed to identify spatial clusters of countries with high rates of cyber attacks directed at other countries. The cyber attack dataset was obtained from Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity , with over 110,000 Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), which were classified into one of 5 categories: benign, phishing, malware, spam, or defacement. The disease surveillance software SaTScanTM was used to perform a spatial analysis of the country of origin for each cyber attack. It allowed the identification of spatial and space-time clusters of locations with unusually high counts or rates of cyber attacks. Number of internet users per country obtained from the 2016 CIAWorld Factbook was used as the population baseline for computing rates and Poisson analysis in SaTScanTM. The clusters were tested for significance with a Monte Carlo study within SaTScanTM, where any cluster with p < 0.05 was designated as a significant cyber attack cluster. Results using the rate of the different types of malicious URL cyber attacks are presented in this paper. This novel approach of studying cyber attacks from a spatial perspective provides an invaluable relative risk assessment for each type of cyber attack that originated from a particular country.
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- Title
- The spatial analysis of the malicious Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
- Publication Details
- Information, Vol.12(1), 2
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI AG); Switzerland
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 19
- Copyright
- © 2020 by the authors.
- Identifiers
- WOS:000610279600001; 99380090648106600
- Academic Unit
- Mechanical Engineering; Mathematics and Statistics; Intelligent Systems and Robotics; Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English