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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 15, 2021
Applicant:

Cloudflare, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Umalatha Batchu, Cupertino, CA (US);

Torsten Zeppenfeld, Emerald Hills, CA (US);

Blake Darche, Finksburg, MD (US);

Philip Syme, Ellicott City, MD (US);

Assignee:

CLOUDFLARE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/107 (2023.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06Q 30/018 (2023.01); G06Q 40/02 (2023.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01); G06N 7/01 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01); G06N 7/01 (2023.01); G06Q 30/018 (2013.01); G06Q 40/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, the disclosed technologies monitor electronic message traffic between a network and a recipient computer system. An embodiment includes obtaining, from an electronic message received from the network, a triple of a display name, email address, and sending domain, determining a name score for triple, and determining characteristics of the electronic message. The name score of the triple and the characteristics of the electronic message may be used to determine whether the electronic message is a spoofing attack such as a business email compromise (BEC) attack. In response to determining that the electronic message is malicious, an embodiment may cause the network to at least one of modify, delay, re-route, or block transmission of the electronic message to the recipient computer system.


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