Iconix Issued New Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a new patent to Iconix titled, "System and method for securely performing multiple stage email processing with embedded codes." The abstract for U.S. Patent 11,770,353, dated September 26, 2023, states: "A system and method for performing email processing at multiple stages along an email delivery chain. A first embodiment uses an email filter to receive information about an email message from a message transfer agent and then perform limited email pre-processing on the email message. The email filter then stores instructions and data such as the results from the email pre-processing [...]

Iconix Issued Nineteenth Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's nineteenth patent titled, "Techniques for Integrating External Content from Advertising Services into Client Applications." The abstract for U.S. Patent 11,416,875, dated August 16, 2022, states: "Techniques for integrating advertising content into client applications are presented. Events occurring within client applications are monitored and when a predefined event is encountered and external advertising service is consulted for acquiring external content. The external content is then integrated into one or more portions of presentations associated with the client applications."

Iconix Issued Eighteenth Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's eighteenth patent titled "User interface for email inbox to call attention differently to different classes of email." The abstract for U.S. Patent 11,343,215, dated May 24, 2022, states: "A user interface for email users which calls attention to one or more categories of emails in different ways. In some species, at least three categories are used: branded senders with Truemarks; white list buddies; and fraudulent emails which are either not from the domain they purport to be from or in which the content was tampered. The preferred embodiment authenticates emails [...]

Iconix Issued Seventeenth Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's seventeenth patent titled "System and method for securely performing multiple stage email processing with embedded codes"   The abstract for U.S. Patent 11,271,883, dated March 8, 2022, states: "A system and method for performing email processing at multiple stages along an email delivery chain. A first embodiment uses an email filter to receive information about an email message from a message transfer agent and then perform limited email pre-processing on the email message. The email filter then stores instructions and data such as the results from the email pre-processing into [...]

Iconix Issued Fourteenth Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's fourteenth patent titled "User Interface for email inbox to call attention differently to different classes of email."   The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,594,645, dated March 17, 2020, states: "A user interface for email users which calls attention to one or more categories of emails in different ways. In some species, at least three categories are used: branded senders with Trumarks; white list buddies; and fraudulent emails which are either not from the domain they purport to be from or in which the content was tampered. The preferred embodiment authenticates [...]

Iconix Issued Thirteenth Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's thirteenth patent titled "Authenticating and confidence marking e-mail messages." The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,541,956, dated January 21, 2020, states: "Methods and systems for authenticating and confidence marking e-mail messages are described. One embodiment describes a method of authenticating an e-mail message. This method involves extracting a plurality of e-mail headers associated with the e-mail message, and identifying a sending edge mail transfer agent (MTA). The method then calls for determining if the sending edge MTA is authorized to send the e-mail message."

Iconix Issued Twelfth Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's twelfth patent titled "E-Mail Message Authentication Extending Standards Compliant Techniques." The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,277,397, dated April 30, 2019, states: "A system and method for e-mail authentication. The method includes aggregating a plurality of headers associated with an e-mail message and transmitting the aggregated plurality of headers to a validation service. A validation response is then received from the validation service. The e-mail is authenticated based on the validation response."

Iconix Issued Eleventh Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's eleventh patent titled "Techniques for integrating external content from advertising services into client applications." The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,248,958, dated April 2, 2019, states: "Techniques for integrating advertising content into client applications are presented. Events occurring within client applications are monitored and when a predefined event is encountered and external advertising service is consulted for acquiring external content. The external content is then integrated into one or more portions of presentations associated with the client applications."

Iconix Issued Tenth Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's tenth patent titled "Authenticating and Confidence Marking E-Mail Messages." The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,110,530, dated October 23, 2018, states: "Methods and systems for authenticating and confidence marking e-mail messages are described. One embodiment describes a method of authenticating an e-mail message. This method involves extracting a plurality of e-mail headers associated with the e-mail message, and identifying a sending edge mail transfer agent (MTA). The method then calls for determining if the sending edge MTA is authorized to send the e-mail message."

Compromised Email Accounts – Threat Actor Gold Mine

What can a threat actor do with a compromised email account? They can steal a lot of money! Yahoo!News provides the details of a clever email scam involving real estate. The threat actors used their access to a compromised real estate settlement company email account to send fraudulent payment instructions to the buyers.  Instead of wiring the money to the account of the settlement company, the recipients of the fraudulent email sent the money to the criminals. This is just one class of Business Email Compromise, a crime in which compromised email is used to steal money. The latest FBI Internet [...]