US Patent Issued to Cequence Security on July 28 for "Passive detection of digital skimming attacks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,785, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cequence Security Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Passive detection of digital skimming attacks" was invented by Abraham Jeevagunta (San Jose, Calif.) and Shreyans Mehta (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to facilitate prevention of malicious attacks on a web service are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, web resources associated with the web service are crawled to obtain information about internal and external web assets associated with the web service. Responses from the internal and external web assets are intercepted and content security policy headers ar...