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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Cheng-Ta Lee, Taipei, TW;
Russell Couturier, Worcester, MA (US);
Andrii Iesiev, Northampton, MA (US);
Iosif Onut, Ottawa, CA;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Countering phishing attacks by generating multiple synthetic victims, where each of the synthetic victims includes synthetic victim information that represents a computer user identity and includes associated sensitive information, where the computer user identity and its associated sensitive information are fictitious in that they are not known to be associated with a legitimate computer user, providing any of the synthetic victim information of the synthetic victims to a computer-hosted phishing site, storing the synthetic victim information in a computer-accessible database, receiving from a computer-hosted target site information provided to the computer-hosted target site by a requestor, identifying in the computer-accessible database database synthetic victim information matching the requestor information, and notifying the computer-hosted target site that the requestor information is of a synthetic victim.