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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2023
Gen Digital Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Iskander Sanchez Rola, Antibes, FR;
Venkadesan Marimuthu, Chennai, IN;
Gen Digital Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting against credential theft by impersonator applications may include (i) identifying an ownership relationship between each of a group of applications and a group of websites, (ii) generating a preliminary list containing the applications identified as having the ownership relationship with the websites, (iii) determining missing ownership relationships for the applications and the websites in the preliminary list, (iv) updating the preliminary list with the missing ownership relationships to create a trusted list of applications and websites, and (v) performing a security action that protects against a credential theft attack by referencing the trusted list to detect potential impersonator applications attempting to steal user credentials. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.