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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2018
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kevin Roundy, Culver City, CA (US);
Sandeep Bhatkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Rinehart, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaolin Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for preparing honeypot computer files may include (1) identifying, at a computing device, a search term used by a cyber attacker in an electronic search request, (2) identifying, without regard to a search access restriction, a sensitive computer document in search results stemming from the electronic search request, (3) creating, as a security action in response to the electronic search request, a honeypot computer file based on the sensitive computer document and including the identified search term, and (4) placing the honeypot computer file in the search results. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.