US Patent Issued to KnowBe4 on May 26 for "Systems and methods to identify a simulated phishing message" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,117, issued on May 26, was assigned to KnowBe4 Inc..

"Systems and methods to identify a simulated phishing message" was invented by Greg Kras (Dunedin, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for detecting a simulated phishing message by an email client plug-in. A unique key is received at the email client plug-in. An indication that an email was reported by a user as a suspicious message is received at the email client plug-in. The email is a simulated phishing message having the unique key mapped by cryptographic hashing function into a hash value in a predetermined field in the header of the simulated ...