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US 10,454,954 B2Granted
Automated detection of phishing campaigns via social media
AssigneePaypal, Inc.
InventorJakub Burgis
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AssigneePaypal, Inc.
InventorJakub Burgis
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Methods and systems for automatically detecting and responding to phishing campaigns are described herein. Real-time feeds may be streamed from one or more social media servers. Each online post from the real-time feeds may be analyzed to determine whether the online post corresponds to a phishing campaign, by examining any web content that is linked from the online post. When it is determined that the online post corresponds to a phishing campaign, target user accounts of the phishing campaign may be identified by analyzing which user accounts have accessed the web content linked from the online post. Restrictions may be imposed to the target user accounts to prevent an account take-over and other losses to the user accounts.
A method of detecting an online phishing campaign for phishing data associated with user accounts with a service provider, the method comprising:
A system for detecting an online phishing campaign for phishing data associated with user accounts with a service provider, the system comprising:
A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.