US Patent Issued to Sophos on May 20 for "Detecting phishing attacks" (American, British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,200, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Detecting phishing attacks" was invented by Andrew J. Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Karl Ackerman (Topsfield, Mass.), James Douglas Bean (Portland, Ore.), Kenneth D. Ray (Seattle) and Daniel Stutz (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a technique for detecting potential phishing attacks by monitoring outbound web traffic from an endpoint, along with inbound electronic mail traffic addressed to a user of the endpoint. With this information, a search can be performed for possible sources in the web traffic of a request...