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Neutralizing malicious locators

US10855704B1 · kind B1 · 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	Feb 11, 2020
Grant date	Dec 1, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 11, 2040

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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