IDENTIFYING USER BEHAVIOR IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM
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1. A computing system, comprising:
- dropbox account identification logic that obtains electronic mail (e-mail) data indicative of a set of forwarding e-mail accounts, that are configured to forward messages to another e-mail account and identifies a dropbox e-mail account as an account that is a destination of forwarded messages from a threshold number of the forwarding e-mail accounts;
malicious collection account identifying logic that is configured to identify malicious collection e-mail accounts, based on the e-mail data identifying a subset of the forwarding e-mail accounts that forward messages to the identified dropbox e-mail account, and generate a malicious collection account identifier identifying the malicious collection e-mail accounts; and
a resolution system that receives the malicious collection account identifier and performs a resolution action to resolve the malicious collection e-mail accounts based on the malicious collection account identifier.
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Abstract
A list of electronic mail (e-mail) accounts is extracted from an electronic mail system. A list of electronic mail accounts, with forwarding enabled, are identified as a set of collection accounts. A dropbox account is identified, from the collection accounts, as a destination e-mail account for the forwarded collection accounts. The collection accounts that forward to the dropbox account that has in excess of a threshold number of collection accounts forwarding to it, are identified as malicious e-mail collection accounts and are forwarded to a resolution system, for resolution.
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20 Claims
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1. A computing system, comprising:
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dropbox account identification logic that obtains electronic mail (e-mail) data indicative of a set of forwarding e-mail accounts, that are configured to forward messages to another e-mail account and identifies a dropbox e-mail account as an account that is a destination of forwarded messages from a threshold number of the forwarding e-mail accounts; malicious collection account identifying logic that is configured to identify malicious collection e-mail accounts, based on the e-mail data identifying a subset of the forwarding e-mail accounts that forward messages to the identified dropbox e-mail account, and generate a malicious collection account identifier identifying the malicious collection e-mail accounts; and a resolution system that receives the malicious collection account identifier and performs a resolution action to resolve the malicious collection e-mail accounts based on the malicious collection account identifier. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computer implemented method, comprising:
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obtaining electronic mail (e-mail) data indicative of a set of forwarding e-mail accounts, that are configured to forward messages to another e-mail account; identifying a dropbox e-mail account as an account that is a destination of forwarded messages from a threshold number of the forwarding e-mail accounts; identifying malicious collection e-mail accounts, based on the e-mail data identifying a subset of the forwarding e-mail accounts that forward messages to the identified dropbox e-mail account; generating a malicious collection account identifier identifying the malicious collection e-mail accounts; and performing a resolution action to resolve the malicious collection e-mail accounts based on the malicious collection account identifier. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computing system, comprising:
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collection account identifying logic that accesses electronic mail (e-mail) data in a user account data store and identifies a set of forwarding e-mail accounts, that are configured to forward messages to another e-mail account, as a set of collection accounts, based on the accessed data and generates a collection account identifier output indicative of the set of collection accounts; dropbox account identification logic that obtains the collection account identifier and identifies a dropbox e-mail account as an account that is a destination of forwarded messages from a threshold number of the forwarding e-mail accounts in the set of collection accounts; malicious collection account identifying logic that is configured to identify malicious collection e-mail accounts, based on the e-mail data identifying a subset of the forwarding e-mail accounts that forward messages to the identified dropbox e-mail account, and generate a malicious collection account identifier identifying the malicious collection e-mail accounts; and a resolution system that receives the malicious collection account identifier and performs a resolution action to resolve the malicious collection e-mail accounts based on the malicious collection account identifier. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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