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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:
May. 20, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2023
Applicant:

Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;

Inventors:

Andrew J. Thomas, Oxfordshire, GB;

Karl Ackerman, Topsfield, MA (US);

James Douglas Bean, Portland, OR (US);

Kenneth D. Ray, Seattle, WA (US);

Daniel Stutz, Karlsruhe, DE;

Assignee:

Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/40 (2013.01); G06F 21/43 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 21/45 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 41/0631 (2022.01); H04L 41/142 (2022.01); H04L 43/10 (2022.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.01); H04L 67/104 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1483 (2013.01); G06F 11/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/40 (2013.01); G06F 21/43 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 21/45 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); H04L 9/3213 (2013.01); H04L 41/0631 (2013.01); H04L 41/142 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.05); H04L 63/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/0209 (2013.01); H04L 63/0227 (2013.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 63/0254 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/0807 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/14 (2013.01); H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); H04L 63/1441 (2013.01); H04L 63/1466 (2013.01); H04L 63/1491 (2013.01); H04L 63/164 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/104 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a technique for detecting potential phishing attacks by monitoring outbound web traffic from an endpoint, along with inbound electronic mail traffic addressed to a user of the endpoint. With this information, a search can be performed for possible sources in the web traffic of a request for a hyperlink located in the inbound mail traffic, and when no source is located, phishing remediation can be performed, including restrictions on access to the hyperlink at an endpoint operated by the user.


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