Patent ID: 11895132
Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A method comprising:
identifying, by a steganographic communications analysis engine based on a knowledge base comprising patterns of file transfers, a file transfer pattern of incoming and outgoing messages between a computing device on a network and a plurality of image hosting websites, wherein the file transfer pattern comprises posting and retrieving a same file multiple times;
quarantining, based on identifying the file transfer pattern matches a simulated pattern of file transfers, the computing device from the network;
analyzing, by the steganographic communications analysis engine, at least one file transferred between the computing device and the plurality of image hosting websites for an indication of steganography; and
triggering, by the steganographic communications analysis engine based on an identified indication of steganography, an alert comprising the indication of steganography.