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ArticlePloS one2021

Co-similar malware infection patterns as a predictor of future risk.

Amir Yavneh, Roy Lothan, Dan Yamin

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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0citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amir YavnehDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Roy LothanDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Dan YaminDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-1131-5572
Tel Aviv University · IL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The internet is flooded with malicious content that can come in various forms and lead to information theft and monetary losses. From the ISP to the browser itself, many security systems act to defend the user from such content. However, most systems have at least one of three major limitations: 1) they are not personalized and do not account for the differences between users, 2) their defense mechanism is reactive and unable to predict upcoming attacks, and 3) they extensively track and use the user's activity, thereby invading her privacy in the process. We developed a methodological framework to predict future exposure to malicious content. Our framework accounts for three factors-the user's previous exposure history, her co-similarity to other users based on their previous exposures in a conceptual network, and how the network evolves. Utilizing over 20,000 users' browsing data, our approach succeeds in achieving accurate results on the infection-prone portion of the population, surpassing common methods, and doing so with as little as 1/1000 of the personal information it requires.

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Identifiers

PMID33780507
PMCPMC8007008
OpenAlexW3147118090

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