US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Jan. 20 for "Poisoning and tracking credentials for phishing web sites" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,901, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Poisoning and tracking credentials for phishing web sites" was invented by Leonardo Avella (Castelnuovo Rangone, Italy) and Vinicio Bonanni (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Poisoned credentials are entered to the login section of phishing web sites automatically identified as related to a legitimate web site. The poisoned credentials are not valid credentials with respect to the login section of the legitimate web site. Later, a login attempt to the legitimate web site is detected on the enterprise network by a malicious actor making use of the poisoned ...