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Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 07, 2024
Applicant:

Proofpoint, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventor:

Nicholas Patrick Mcclay, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Assignee:

Proofpoint, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/577 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H04L 63/1483 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the disclosure relate to spear phishing simulation using machine learning. A computing platform may send, to an enterprise user device, a spear phishing message. The computing platform may receive initial user interaction information indicating how a user of the enterprise user device interacted with the spear phishing message. Based on the initial user interaction information and using a series of branching message templates, the computing platform may generate additional spear phishing messages. The computing platform may receive additional user interaction information indicating how the user interacted with the additional spear phishing messages. Based on the initial user interaction information and the additional user interaction information, the computing platform may compute spear phishing scores. Based on a comparison of the spear phishing scores to spear phishing thresholds, the computing platform may generate training modules for the user, and may send the training modules to the enterprise user device.


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