US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Jan. 20 for "System, device and method for protecting users against phishing email attacks" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,902, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System, device and method for protecting users against phishing email attacks" was invented by Tariq O. Maghrabi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Dalia A. Albuqaytah (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ola M. Alshamrani (Yanbu, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to protect an email user against a phishing attack is described. The method includes detecting a mouse click or a mouse hovering, from a computer mouse of the email user, of an email item on a computer desktop, determining, based on a threat intelligence data source, that the email ite...