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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2022
Gen Digital Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Iskander Sanchez Rola, Antibes, FR;
Gen Digital Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for utilizing contextual digital fingerprints to protect against browser-based malicious attacks may include (i) detecting an execution of one or more fingerprinting application programming interface (API) calls utilized by a target website for providing access to a user, (ii) generating identity data comprising specific values for each of the fingerprinting API calls to create a contextual digital fingerprint, (iii) storing the contextual digital fingerprint for consecutive accesses to the target website, and (iv) performing a security action that, based on the identity data in the contextual digital fingerprint, protects against browser-based malicious attacks attempting to access the target website. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.