US Patent Issued to Slash Next on Sept. 16 for "Method and system for detecting credential stealing attacks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,549, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Slash Next Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Method and system for detecting credential stealing attacks" was invented by Atif Mushtaq (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Active Vision detection method and system for detecting credential stealing attacks using an automated machine-learning page examination engine is provided that may be used to detect both brand-based and custom credential stealing attacks. The approach employs similarity analysis in a two-stage process that may be achieved through supervised or self-learning machine learning techniques and is comparable to human a...