Preventing ai engineered password compromises originating from keystroke rhythms

A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:

• automatically determining, at a keyboard sound mitigation agent that is implemented on a first computing system, if the first computing system is actively running a video communication service during a video communication session with a second computing system;
• automatically determining, by a video communication monitor of the keyboard sound mitigation agent, whether a microphone of the first computing system is actively enabled, and enabling a password input monitoring function of the keyboard sound mitigation agent only when both (i) the video communication service is actively running and (ii) the microphone is actively enabled;
• in response to determining that the first computing system is actively running the video communication service during the video communication session with a second computing system and that the password input monitoring function is enabled, automatically determining, by the keyboard sound mitigation agent, that a user of the first computing system is entering a password or sensitive information into a webpage or window that is active on the first computing system, wherein determining that the user is entering the password or sensitive information comprises (i) scanning the active webpage or window to detect a password input field or sensitive information input field, (ii) detecting that a cursor or user input focus has entered the password input field or sensitive information input field, and (iii) detecting entry of an initial keyboard event in the password input field or sensitive information input field;
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• in response to determining that the user of the first computing system is entering the password or the sensitive information, performing, by the keyboard sound mitigation agent, a keyboard sound mitigation operation that masks or removes any keyboard sounds made while entering the password or the sensitive information, wherein the keyboard sound mitigation operation is initiated upon detection of the initial keyboard event and is terminated upon detecting that the cursor or user input focus exits the password input field or sensitive information input field, and wherein the keyboard sound mitigation operation is performed only while the microphone remains actively enabled.