On the effectiveness of risk prediction based on users browsing behavior
Davide Canali, Leyla Bilge, Davide Balzarotti · 2014
Users are typically the final target of web attacks: criminals are interested in stealing their money, their personal information, or in infecting their machines with malicious code. However, while many aspects of web attacks have been carefully studied by researchers and security companies, the reasons that make certain users more "at risk" than others are still unknown. Why do certain users never encounter malicious pages while others seem to end up on them on a daily basis?