{"url":"/dataset/mal-activity","name":"Mal-Activity","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"This is a dataset of Internet malicious activity (mal-activity in short). It contains more than 51 million mal-activity reports involving 662K unique IP addresses covering the period form January 2007 to June 2017. Leveraging the Wayback Machine, antivirus (AV) tool reports and several additional public datasets (e.g., BGP Route Views and Internet registries) the data is enriched with historical meta-information including geo-locations (countries), autonomous system (AS) numbers and types of mal-activity. \r\n\r\nAn initially labelled dataset of approx 1.57 million mal-activities (obtained from public blacklists) is used to train a machine learning classifier to classify the remaining unlabeled dataset of approx 44 million mal-activities obtained through additional sources.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://internetmaliciousactivity.github.io/","introduced_date":"2019-04-24","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":null,"title":"A Decade of Mal-Activity Reporting: A Retrospective Analysis of Internet Malicious Activity Blacklists","first_author":null,"url":null},"license":{"name":"Unknown","url":null},"modalities":[],"tasks":[],"languages":[],"variants":["Mal-Activity"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":1,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}