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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for protecting against notification based phishing attacks on a computing device. In an embodiment, the method comprises when the computing device receives a notification, identifying a pattern for the notification and identifying an application that triggered the notification; determining if the identified pattern matches any of a defined group of pre-specified patterns, each of the pre-specified patterns being associated with a specified application; when the identified pattern matches one of the pre-specified patterns, determining if the specified application associated with the matched pattern is the same as the application that triggered the notification; and when the specified application associated with the matched pattern is not the same as the application that triggered the notification, generating a message to alert a user of the computing device that the received notification may be a phishing attack.