US Patent Issued on Aug. 11 for "Phishing website detection by checking form differences followed by false credentials submission" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,949, issued on Aug. 11.

"Phishing website detection by checking form differences followed by false credentials submission" was invented by Fatih Orhan (Cedar Grove, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method to detect phishing websites so as to protect users from sending their sensitive information to criminal servers. When browsing a web site having an input form asking sensitive information, the input fields are recorded (i.e. username field and password field). Then false credentials are generated and submitted in background. The new control layer then checks the response page content whether it includes an inp...