ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,526, issued on July 29, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Detection of malicious phishing emails" was invented by Candid Wuest (Bassersdorf, Switzerland), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting a phishing attack in an email message. The method includes intercepting and evaluating an email, and generating a reputation score based on the evaluation of the email message. If the malicious component is detected, the email is blocked, if not, a trust score is generated. A determination is made whether the ...