Palo Alto Networks was granted a patent for tracking domain abuse trends.

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    "patent_title": "Trending topic tracker for proactive domain abuse monitoring",
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    "patent_abstract": "A domain abuse detection system periodically retrieves trending topics, topic attributes, and interest metrics data from data sources. The domain abuse detection system also prompts a language model to generate a list of tokens for each trending topic based on the topic attributes, as well as retrieved web content related to the topic. The domain abuse detection system then analyzes the trending topics to identify “hot” and “rising” topics based on the interest metrics data. The domain abuse detection system prompts a language model to identify which of the hot and rising topics are exploitable for domain abuse. For each exploitable topic, the domain abuse detection system searches domain related databases (e.g., domain registration databases) for domain entities based on the tokens. ring) and generate a domain abuse report.",
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