Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Robert G Lefferts

Hai Liu

Jason Joseph Weber

Andrew Sean Watson

Christian Seifert

Steven James Rayson

Charles Strempler

Abhishek Sagar

Mara Beth Fortini

Ali Alabbas

Christian Stockwell

Michael David Mccormack

Sinclaire Renee Hamilton

Brian Keith Catlin

Richard Joseph Murillo

Rupo Zhang

Paresh Maisuria

The technology described herein identifies and mitigates phishing attempts by analyzing user input received at the operating system level. Initially, a credential, such as a username or password, is registered with the threat detection system. The technology described herein intercepts user input at the operating system level, generates a hash of the input, and compares it with a hash of a credential being monitored. A credential entry is detected when a hash for the character string entered matches a hash for a credential being monitored. The technology described herein will perform a threat assessment when a secret entry is detected. The threat assessment may use the application context and the network context as inputs to the assessment. Various mitigation actions may be taken when a threat is detected.

Credential input detection and threat analysis

A dynamically configurable list management system that supports list elements of multiple content types is presented. Each list element is associated with an element type via an element type identifier. The element type identifier uniquely identifies the element type to the list management system. Each property associated with each element type is included in the list. Each property is identified by a unique property identifier. When adding a list element of a new element type to an existing list that does not include any elements of the new element type, the list management system identifies every property associated with the new element type. For each property associated with the new element type, the list management system determines which properties are not already included in the list, and adds those properties that are not already including to the list.

Dynamically configurable lists for including multiple content types

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