Countering phishing attacks
US11159566B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 21, 2018 |
| Grant date | Oct 26, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 20, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/903
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Countering phishing attacks by generating multiple synthetic victims, where each of the synthetic victims includes synthetic victim information that represents a computer user identity and includes associated sensitive information, where the computer user identity and its associated sensitive information are fictitious in that they are not known to be associated with a legitimate computer user, providing any of the synthetic victim information of the synthetic victims to a computer-hosted phishing site, storing the synthetic victim information in a computer-accessible database, receiving from a computer-hosted target site information provided to the computer-hosted target site by a requestor, identifying in the computer-accessible database database synthetic victim information matching the requestor information, and notifying the computer-hosted target site that the requestor information is of a synthetic victim.
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