Detecting Stealthy Web Bots: A Behavioral Analysis Framework for OpenWPM Automation
inforesearchPeer-Reviewed
security
Source: IEEE Xplore (Security & AI Journals)December 3, 2025
Summary
Advanced web bots like OpenWPM (a browser automation tool) can hide their identity and mimic human behavior, making them hard to detect and potentially enabling fraud or data theft. Researchers developed a detection system that analyzes four types of browsing behaviors (mouse movement, clicks, keystrokes, and scrolling) using machine learning classification models to identify these stealthy bots with 98.8% accuracy.
Classification
Attack SophisticationModerate
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Original source: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11275848
First tracked: April 20, 2026 at 02:03 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 75%