Hands-On Machine Learning for Cybersecurity

Introduction to the types of abnormalities in URLs

Lousy URLs are URLs that have been created with malicious intent. They are often the precursors to cyberattacks that may happen in the near future. Lousy URLs can hit pretty close to home, leaving each one of us very vulnerable to bad sites that we might visit on purpose or by accident.

Google often has inbuilt malicious URL detection capabilities, and the following screenshot shows what many of us have bumped into upon detecting a malicious URL:

Malicious URLs lead us to bad websites that either try to sell us counterfeit products, such as medication, unsolicited products, such as watches ...