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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2018
Applicant:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vinith Raj, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Mohit Jha, Torrance, CA (US);
Assignee:
NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying a malicious user interface may include (1) detecting, at a computing device, a launch of a user interface (UI), (2) gathering characteristics of the UI including a UI image, (3) identifying the UI is not permissible by comparing the UI image to a whitelist including permissible UI images, and (4) performing, when the UI image is not permissible, a security action. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.