US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on July 7 for "Predicting online electronic attacks based on other attacks" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,881, issued on July 7, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Predicting online electronic attacks based on other attacks" was invented by Yuri Shafet (Beer Sheva, Israel), Bradley Wardman (Phoenix) and Ilya Chernyakov (Givat Shmuel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indication is received that a first online platform has undergone/is undergoing a first electronic attack made by one or more actors engaged in online malicious actions with the first online platform. Responsive to the indication of the first electronic attack, one or more vulnerability characteristics of the first online platform are determined, where th...