System for identifying and blocking suspect electronic communications based on artificial intelligence

A computer-implemented method for electronic mail (email) management, the computer-implemented method is executed by one or more computing processor devices and comprises:

• implementing machine-learning techniques to learn, over-time, malicious email patterns from (i) previously identified malicious emails, (ii) continuously crawling the World Wide Web to identify data relevant to learning malicious email patterns, and (iii) feeds from threat intelligence sources;
• receiving email addressed to a plurality of users;
• prior to delivering the email to the electronic mailboxes of the email clients, analyzing the received email by, at least, applying the malicious email patterns to identify malicious email, wherein malicious email is email that attempts to wrongfully obtain data;
• and
• preventing the malicious email from being delivered to the electronic mailbox of the corresponding one of the plurality of users.

A computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising sets of codes for causing one or more computing processing devices to:
• implement machine-learning techniques to learn, over-time, malicious email patterns from (i) previously identified malicious emails, (ii) continuously crawling the World Wide Web to identify data relevant to learning malicious email patterns, and (iii) feeds from threat intelligence sources;
• receive email addressed to a plurality of users;
• prior to delivering the email to the electronic mailboxes of the email clients, analyze the received email by, at least, applying the malicious email patterns to identify malicious email, wherein malicious email is email that attempts to wrongfully obtain data;
• and
• prevent the malicious email from being delivered to the electronic mailbox of the corresponding one of the plurality of users.