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Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 21, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Cheng-Ta Lee, Taipei, TW;

Russell Couturier, Worcester, MA (US);

Andrii Iesiev, Northampton, MA (US);

Iosif Onut, Ottawa, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1483 (2013.01); H04L 9/0825 (2013.01); H04L 63/1491 (2013.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01);
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.


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