MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541110620 A) filed by New Prince Shri Bhavani College Of Engineering And Technology; Selva Srjka. R; Dharika. M; Shailaja. K; and Jayashree. Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Nov. 13, 2025, for 'safeclick: a light weight url detection framework against phishing.'
Inventor(s) include Selva Srika R; Dhariica M; Shailaja K; and Jayashree V.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Phishing remains one of the most dangerous and widespread cybersecurity threats, with attackers increasingly using deceptive URLs to lure users into revealing sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, or personal identification data. These phishing URLs are often designed to closely mimic legitimate web addresses, making them difficult to detect through traditional methods. Most existing detection systems rely on URL blacklists, heuristics, or content-based analysis, which can be slow to update, computationally expensive, and ineffective against zero-day phishing sites. These limitations create a pressing need for faster, more reliable, and scalable phishing detection solutions. Safeclick is introduced as a lightweight URL detection framework specifically designed to combat phishing attacks in real time. Unlike heavy-weight solutions that depend on web content retrieval or large-scale databases, Safeclickanalyzes the structure of the URL itself. It extracts features such as domain length, presence of special characters, use of HTTPS, domain age, and other lexical and host-based indicators. These features are then processed using efficient machine learning algorithms trained on large datasets of benign and malicious URlis."
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