New software-Gyrus, will help in preventing online banking scams

Becoming victim of an online money transfer fraud has turned into a common thing today, which many users face on almost daily basis. The need for a software that can block unauthorized commands during money transfer, thus seems imperative. To address just this need of users, a new software is now being developed.

Named as Gyrus, it’s a prototype software designed by researchers at Georgia Tech, which is extra cautious in preventing malware from sending spam emails and instant messages.

Gyrus appears to be present a transparent security layer on top of a window application. If Gyrus finds any tampering in the user-intended data, the traffic is blocked and user notified instantly.

The protection programs that exist are capable in recognizing the original user’s objective to transfer money online, send email or get involved in other transactions, but these are unable in verifying the specifics like amount of money and content of the email.

The lack of context makes it difficult in verifying the full intent of the user, irrespective of the fact that the software is protecting the money transfer, an industry-specific system or a broad range of user-driven applications.

The research at Georgia Tech aims at observing most part of text-based applications, helping the user objective get displayed on screen as text. This will help the user in making changes, if any info on screen is not what he or she actually wants.

As per researchers who created the same, Gyrus is based on WYSIWYS policy, which stands for “What You See Is What You Send”.

The idea of defining apt application behaviors by capturing the user’s aim is not totally new, but past attempts made on this front have resulted in simple model of the user’s behavior.

Gyrus, meanwhile, will capture richer semantics that cover both text contents and the user actions, alongside applications semantics; this will help the system in sending only user-intended network traffic.

Gyrus, indirectly will help in correctly determining the user purpose from the screen, which is displayed to the user. 

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