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Neutralizing malicious locators

US10601846B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Rapid7, Inc. · US

Inventors

Roy Hodgman · Wenham, US
Aditya Kuppa · Foxford, IE
Suchin Gururangan · Somerville, US
Andrew Reece · San Francisco, US

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 31, 2018
Grant date	Mar 24, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 31, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L63/1441
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and systems for neutralizing malicious locators. Threat actors may shut down their web pages or applications (i.e., resources) that serve malicious content upon receiving request(s) configured to be perceived by the resource as non-browser requests. Therefore, initiating (large-scale) non-browser requests, or requests that are at least perceived as non-browser requests, may effectively act to inhibit, or even nullify, intended attack vectors.

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