| CPC H04L 63/1425 (2013.01) [G06N 3/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by one or more processors, a trained spam upsurge detection machine learning model that is trained to output a determination when a current frequency associated with spam communications received by a current user exceeds a baseline frequency associated with the current user;
receiving, by the one or more processors, from a computing device of a user, a permission indicator identifying a permission by the user to detect communications being received by the computing device;
receiving, by the one or more processors, from the computing device, an indication of at least one communication being received;
identifying, by the one or more processors, using a spam detection machine learning model, that the at least one communication is a particular spam communication;
updating, by the one or more processors, a frequency at which spam communications have been received by the user based at least in part on the particular spam communication;
utilizing, by the one or more processors, the trained spam upsurge detection machine learning model to determine that the frequency exceeds a baseline frequency associated with the user; and
initiating, by the one or more processors, and in response to the determination, a scan of one or more dark web resources.
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