Patents Assigned to BioCatch Ltd
  • Patent number: 11877152
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods of detecting user identity, differentiating between users of a computerized service, and detecting a cyber-attacker. A user utilizes a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a smartphone, a tablet, or other electronic device, to interact with a banking website or application, a retailer website or application, or other computerized service. Input-unit interactions are monitored, logged, and analyzed. Based on several types of analysis of the input-unit interactions, a score is generated to reflect fraud-relatedness or attack-relatedness of the input-unit interactions. Based on the score, the system estimates or determines whether the user is an attacker, and initiates attack-mitigation operations or fraud-mitigation operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Avi Turgeman, Oren Kedem, Uri Rivner
  • Patent number: 11838118
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods of detecting a vishing attack, in which an attacker provides to a victim step-by-step over-the-phone instructions that command the victim to log-in to his bank account and to perform a dictated banking transaction. The system monitors transactions, online operations, user interactions, gestures performed via input units, speed and timing of data entry, and user engagement with User Interface elements. The system detects that the operations performed by the victim, follow a pre-defined playbook of a vishing attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Oren Kedem, Avi Turgeman, Itai Novick, Alexander Basil Zaloum, Leonid Karabchevsky, Shira Mintz, Ron Uriel Maor
  • Patent number: 11741476
    Abstract: Method, device, and system of detecting a mule bank account, or a bank account used for terror funding or money laundering. A method includes: monitoring interactions of a user with a computing device during online access with a bank account; and based on the monitoring, determining that the bank account is utilized as a mule bank account to illegally receive and transfer money, or is used for money laundering or terror funding. The method takes into account one or more indicators, such as, utilization of a remote access channel, utilization of a virtual machine or a proxy server, unique behavior across multiple different accounts, temporal correlation among operations, detection of a set of operations that follow a pre-defined mule account playbook, detection of multiple incoming fund transfers from multiple countries that are followed by a single outgoing fund transfer to a different country, and other indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Itai Novick, Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 11736478
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods of detecting user identity, authenticating a user to a computerized service or to an electronic device, differentiating between users of a computerized service, and detecting possible attackers or possible fraudulent transactions. A method includes: generating a user authentication session that requires a user to enter a secret by performing a task; monitoring the user interactions during task performance; extracting a user-specific behavioral characteristic, and utilizing it as a factor in user authentication. The task requires the user to perform on-screen operations via a touch-screen or touchpad or mouse or other input unit of the electronic device, or to move in space or tilt in space the entirety of the electronic device in a way that causes inputting of the secret data-item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventor: Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 11630893
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method of providing identification of a user or authentication of a user's identity. More particularly, the present invention relates to an improved method of providing identification of a user or authentication of a user's identity using conditional behavioural biometrics. The present invention seeks to provide an enhanced method of authenticating and/or identifying a user identity using conditional behavioural biometrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Alesis Novik, Andrius Sutas
  • Patent number: 11606353
    Abstract: System, device, and method of generating and utilizing one-time passwords. A method generates a particular One-Time Password (OTP) string that is based on pre-defined OTP string construction rules. The particular OTP string is not a purely-random string; rather, the particular non-purely-random OTP string provides to a behavioral monitoring unit a capability to extract user-specific behavioral typing patterns from a way in which a user types characters of the particular OTP via a keyboard of an electronic device. The method sends the particular OTP string to the user; monitors the way that the user types the OTP string; extracts from the user interactions, that were performed while the user entered the OTP string, a user-specific behavioral typing characteristic; and based on that user-specific characteristic, determines whether that user is authenticated or non-authenticated, and optionally activates fraud mitigation operations or transaction blocking operations if the user is non-authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Alexander Basil Zaloum, Alesis Novik, Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 11580553
    Abstract: Method, device, and system of detecting a mule bank account, or a bank account used for terror funding or money laundering. A method includes: monitoring interactions of a user with a computing device during online access with a bank account; and based on the monitoring, determining that the bank account is utilized as a mule bank account to illegally receive and transfer money, or is used for money laundering or terror funding. The method takes into account one or more indicators, such as, utilization of a remote access channel, utilization of a virtual machine or a proxy server, unique behavior across multiple different accounts, temporal correlation among operations, detection of a set of operations that follow a pre-defined mule account playbook, detection of multiple incoming fund transfers from multiple countries that are followed by a single outgoing fund transfer to a different country, and other indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Itai Novick, Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 11425563
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods of detecting user identity, differentiating between users of a computerized service, and detecting a cyber-attacker. A user utilizes a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a smartphone, a tablet, or other electronic device, to interact with a banking website or application, a retailer website or application, or other computerized service. Input-unit interactions are monitored, logged, and analyzed. Based on several types of analysis of the input-unit interactions, a score is generated to reflect fraud-relatedness or attack-relatedness of the input-unit interactions. Based on the score, the system estimates or determines whether the user is an attacker, and initiates attach-mitigation operations or fraud-mitigation operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Avi Turgeman, Oren Kedem, Uri Rivner
  • Patent number: 11330012
    Abstract: System, method, and device of detecting identity of a user and authenticating a user; as well as detecting a possible attacker or impostor, and differentiating among users of an electronic device or of a computerized service. A mobile or portable electronic device is utilized to capture a self-taken image or video of a user, which is utilized as a user-authentication factor. The accelerometer and gyroscope or device-orientation sensor of the mobile device, sense and measure spatial and physical device properties during, before or after the submission of the self-taken image or video. Based on such spatial and physical device properties, in combination with computer-vision analysis of the content shown in the self-taken image or video, the system determines liveness of the user and freshness of the submitted self-taken image or video, and differentiates between a legitimate user and an attacker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventor: Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 11323451
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods of detecting whether an electronic device or computerized device or computer, is communicating with a computerized service or a trusted server directly and without an intermediary web-proxy, or indirectly by utilizing a proxy server or web-proxy. The system searches for particular characteristics or attributes, that characterize a proxy-based communication session or channel and that do not characterize a direct non-proxy-based communication session or channel; or conversely, the system searches for particular characteristics or attributes, that characterize a direct non-proxy-based communication session or channel and that do not characterize a proxy-based communication session or channel; and based on these characteristics, determines whether or not a proxy server exists and operates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Avi Turgeman, Yaron Lehmann, Yaron Azizi, Itai Novick
  • Patent number: 11314849
    Abstract: Method, device, and system of detecting a lie of a user who inputs data. A method includes monitoring input-unit gestures and interactions of a user that inputs data through an electronic device; and based on analysis of the input-unit gestures and interactions, determining that the user has inputted false data through the electronic device. A particular fillable field, or a particular question, are identified as having untrue input from the user. Optionally, spatial orientation data of the electronic device is taken into account in the determination process. Optionally, contextual analysis is utilized, to determine that the input-unit gestures and interactions reflect an attempt of the user to perform a beautifying modification of a data-item to his benefit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Oren Kedem, Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 11269977
    Abstract: System and method of collecting and processing data in electronic devices. A sensors data collector collects measurements from at least an accelerometer and a gyroscope of an electronic device. A data-loss prevention module operates to pass these measurements, immediately upon their collection, to a supplemental locally-running processing thread which retains the measurements even after a refresh of a web-page in which the measurements were collected, and which transmits the measurements to a remote server even after refresh of the web-page in which the measurements were collected. Non-global scope of functions is utilized, to reduce security exposure. An asynchronous SharedWorker module is utilized, to alleviate congestion of computing resources of the electronic device. Data obfuscation and encoding is utilized to maintain anonymity of user-entered data while still allowing a remote server to ensure the integrity of data received from the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Avi Turgeman, Yehuda Sabag, Leonid Karabchevsky
  • Patent number: 11250435
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods of contextual mapping of web-page elements and other User Interface elements, for the purpose of differentiating between fraudulent transactions and legitimate transactions, or for the purpose of distinguishing between a fraudulent user and a legitimate user. User Interface elements of a website or webpage or application or other computerized service, are contextually analyzed. A first User Interface element is assigned a low fraud-relatedness score-value, since user engagement with the first User Interface element does not create a security risk or a monetary exposure. A second, different, User Interface element is assigned a high fraud-relatedness score-value, since user engagement with the second User Interface element creates a security risk or a monetary exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Avi Turgeman, Oren Kedem
  • Patent number: 11238349
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method of providing identification of a user or authentication of a user's identity. More particularly, the present invention relates to an improved method of providing identification of a user or authentication of a user's identity using conditional behavioural biometrics. The present invention seeks to provide an enhanced method of authenticating and/or identifying a user identity using conditional behavioural biometrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Alesis Novik, Andrius Sutas
  • Patent number: 11223619
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods of detecting user identity, authenticating a user to a computerized service or to an electronic device, differentiating between users of a computerized service, and detecting possible attackers or possible fraudulent transactions. A method includes: generating a user authentication session that requires a user to enter a secret by performing a task; monitoring the user interactions during task performance; extracting a user-specific behavioral characteristic, and utilizing it as a factor in user authentication. The task requires the user to perform on-screen operations via a touch-screen or touchpad or mouse or other input unit of the electronic device, or to move in space or tilt in space the entirety of the electronic device in a way that causes inputting of the secret data-item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventor: Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 11210674
    Abstract: Method, device, and system of detecting a mule bank account, or a bank account used for terror funding or money laundering. A method includes: monitoring interactions of a user with a computing device during online access with a banking account; and based on the monitoring, determining that the online banking account is utilized as a mule bank account to illegally receive and transfer money. The method takes into account one or more indicators, such as, utilization of a remote access channel, utilization of a virtual machine or a proxy server, unique behavior across multiple different account, temporal correlation among operations, detection of a set of operations that follow a pre-defined mule account playbook, detection of multiple incoming fund transfers from multiple countries that are followed by a single outgoing fund transfer to a different country, and other suitable indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Itai Novick, Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 11055395
    Abstract: A method for identifying and/or authenticating a user on a device, the method comprising: requesting identification or authentication of the user for a first task; determining a first threshold in dependence on the first task; selecting a first authentication process from a plurality of authentication processes; determining a confidence score in dependence on a performance of the selected first authentication process, wherein the confidence score indicates a level of confidence in the user's identity; determining whether the confidence score is above or below the first threshold; and if the confidence score is below the first threshold, selecting a second authentication process from the plurality of authentication processes, otherwise identifying or authenticating the user for the first task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Alesis Novik, Andrius Sutas
  • Patent number: 10970394
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods of detecting a vishing attack, in which an attacker provides to a victim step-by-step over-the-phone instructions that command the victim to log-in to his bank account and to perform a dictated banking transaction. The system monitors transactions, online operations, user interactions, gestures performed via input units, and user engagement with User Interface elements. The system detects that the operations performed by the victim, follow a pre-defined playbook of a vishing attack. The system detects that the victim operates under duress or under dictated instructions, as exhibited in irregular doodling activity, data entry rhythm, typographical error introduction rhythm, unique posture of the user, alternating pattern of listening to phone instructions and performing online operations via a computer, and device orientation changes or spatial changes that characterize a device being used to perform an online transaction while also talking on the phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Oren Kedem, Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 10949757
    Abstract: Device, system, and method of detecting identity of a user based on motor-control loop model. A method includes: during a first session of a user who utilizes a pointing device for interacting with a computerized service, monitoring the pointing device dynamics and gestures of the user; based on the monitored dynamics and gestures, estimating parameters that characterize a sensorimotor control loop model of the user; storing in a database a record indicating that the user is associated with the parameters that characterize the sensorimotor control loop model of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventor: Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 10949514
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods of detecting user identity, differentiating between users of a computerized service, detecting a possible attacker, and flagging a particular financial transaction or a particular retail transaction as being possibly-fraudulent. The methods include monitoring of user-side input-unit interactions, in general and in response to an interference introduced to user-interface elements. The monitored interactions are analyzed, and enable extraction of hardware-specific features of a computer mouse, a touchpad, a touch-screen, a keyboard, or other input unit. In some methods, detection of different mouse polling rates or different mouse DPI values, across two different usage sessions in the same financial account, enables the method to detect a possibly-fraudulent transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Avi Turgeman, Itai Novick