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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2020
Barracuda Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Fleming Shi, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Barracuda Networks, Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Abstract
A new approach is proposed to support data filtering in machine learning (ML) to detect impersonation attacks. First, filters are applied to filter data or information collected from a user in order to extract features that are specific and/or unique for the identification of the user. The features extracted from the set of data are then used to train ML models configured to identify a set of key characteristics of electronic messages or web-based resources originated by the user. When a new electronic message or web-based resource purported to be from the user is intercepted, one or more of the trained ML models that are applicable are utilized to determine or predict if the newly intercepted electronic message or web-based resource is indeed originated by the user or is impersonated by an attacker under the same filtering criteria as training of the corresponding ML models.