SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTRIBUTING POTENTIALLY MALICIOUS EMAIL CAMPAIGNS TO KNOWN THREAT GROUPS

Patent №

US 9,548,988

Granted

2017-01-17

Filed 2014

Owner

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14461810

The disclosed computer-implemented method for attributing potentially malicious email campaigns to known threat groups may include (1) identifying a potentially malicious email campaign targeting at least one organization, (2) detecting, within the potentially malicious email campaign, an incriminating feature that has been linked to a known threat group, (3) determining, based at least in part on detecting the incriminating feature linked to the known threat group, that the known threat group is likely responsible for the potentially malicious email campaign, and then in response to determining that the known threat group is likely responsible for the potentially malicious email campaign, (4) attributing the potentially malicious email campaign to the known threat group. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Natural languageKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareH04L 63/1416G06F 21/566H04L 63/145H04L 67/02H04L 67/10H04L 67/1097H04L 69/16

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation0.94
AI hardware0.60
Machine learning0.35
Vision0.08
Evolutionary computation0.05
Speech0.00

Ownership

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

assignment · 335540319

Assignors

ROUNDY, KEVIN ALEJANDRO, THONNARD, OLIVIER

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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