According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors Hong, Ki Heon (Daejeon, KR); KANG, Pill Sang (Daejeon, KR); Kim, Ji Hun (Daejeon, KR), filed on September 20, 2023, was made available online on February 8, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: " "Field "The present disclosure relates to a harmful URL detection method, wherein in a case where entry is requested to a web page to which access is sought from a user terminal, an access target URL corresponding to the web page is compared with a pre-stored whitelist, so that when an identical domain exists, the access target URL is excluded from a detection target, and when the identical domain does not exist, whether the access target URL refers to a previously accessed web page or not is checked; when the web page was previously accessed, the access target URL is excluded from the detection target, and when the web page was not previously accessed, a response code for the access target URL is checked; and when the access target URL is not normal in communication, not only the access target URL is excluded from the detection target but also a harmful URL is detected through an artificial intelligence model using various data that may occur on the web, whereby harmful URLs may be effectively detected and blocked.
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