SBIR/STTR Research Award

Pixm Anti-Phishing - World's first phishing protection on the edge using AI Computer Vision

Award identifier 72da81ab0f74fab082ab20125a16e065163bc7248e4ce3a2b17b21eb8c51669eAwarding agency Department of Defense · Air Force

Award amount

$50,000

Program and phase

SBIR · Phase I

Award year

2020

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Award details

Awarding agency
Department of Defense
Branch
Air Force
Recipient company
PIXM, INC.
Proposal award date
2019-12-12
Contract end date
2020-12-12
UEI
Not reported
Solicitation number
DoD SBIR X19.2
Topic code
AF193-CSO1

Research abstract

93% of all data breaches today start with phishing attacks. Of these, 90% involve stealing passwords via a fake login page. Attackers take advantage of busy people’s need to read quickly -- when they don’t notice subtle differences in a web URL or company logo. Pixm is the world's first on-device phishing prevention that shuts down nefarious links before a person can click on them. Traditional anti-phishing runs in the cloud by scanning incoming emails for any known phishing links or malicious attachments. Attackers now spoof this technology in a way that fools the cloud-based anti-phishing scanners and reveals the attack page only to targeted victims. To get a step ahead, it’s necessary to monitor the device locally in real-time, in a non-hackable way. Using AI-enabled machine vision, Pixm has invented an elegant, cyber-secure means to scan all login pages a person visits on their screen.  When a user clicks on a link that opens in a browser, Pixm’s engine takes a screenshot, then uses deep-learning computer vision on-device to detect when the login page is an impersonation. Pixm shuts down spoofed webpages within 1 second, then alerts the IT Administrator where and when the attack that was averted.

Technology keywords

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Department of Defense

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