US Patent Issued to Gen Digital on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for utilizing user profile data to protect against phishing attacks" (French, Irish, Greek, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,538, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing user profile data to protect against phishing attacks" was invented by David Luz Silva (Dublin), Johann Roturier (Maynooth, Ireland), Petros Efstathopoulos (Los Angeles), Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France), Savino Dambra (Nice, France), Platon Kotzias (Athens, Greece) and Leylya Yumer (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method for utilizing user profile data to protect against phishing attacks may include (i) detecting a target user profile associated services accessed by a ne...