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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2016
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Deepen Desai, San Ramon, CA (US);
Amit Sinha, San Jose, CA (US);
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for identifying and addressing domains suspected as malicious domains used for targeted attacks in a cloud-based system include receiving valid domains; receiving an unidentified domain; comparing the unidentified domain to the valid domains to derive a distance calculation of the unidentified domain to each of the valid domains; determining whether the unidentified domain is a cybersquatting attempt of one of the valid domains based on the comparing; and, responsive to the determining the unidentified domain is a cybersquatting attempt, one of notifying an operator/user and blocking the unidentified domain in the cloud-based system.