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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2022
Gen Digital Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
David Luz Silva, Dublin, IE;
Johann Roturier, Maynooth, IE;
Petros Efstathopoulos, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Iskander Sanchez Rola, Antibes, FR;
Savino Dambra, Nice, FR;
Platon Kotzias, Athens, GR;
Leylya Yumer, Antibes, FR;
Gen Digital Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for utilizing user profile data to protect against phishing attacks may include (i) detecting a target user profile associated services accessed by a network-based application, (ii) determining identifiers associated with each of the services, (iii) extracting, for each of the identifiers, feature vectors describing exploitable screen elements in the network-based application associated with phishing attacks, (iv) updating, based on the feature vectors, previously extracted feature vectors in a data repository storing additional profiles for other users associated with the services, (v) predicting, utilizing a machine-learning model, phishing attack threats for target profile user based on a similarity with the additional profiles, and (vi) performing a security action that protects against the phishing attack threats. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.