ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,561, issued on July 1, was assigned to Musarubra US LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Detection of phishing attacks using similarity analysis" was invented by Rundong Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized system and method to detect phishing cyber-attacks is described. The approach entails analyzing one or more displayable images of a webpage referenced by a URL to ascertain whether the one or more displayable images, and thus the webpage and potentially an email including the URL, are part of a phishing cyber-attack."

The patent was filed on Jan. 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/161,682.

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