US Patent Issued to Acronis International on Sept. 16 for "Ransomware protection in advanced injection-based attacks" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,567, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Ransomware protection in advanced injection-based attacks" was invented by Vladimir Strogov (Singapore), Aliaksei Dodz (Singapore), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for ransomware protection in advanced injection-based attacks. The call stack(s) of injected threads are analyzed and a preliminary verdict of benign or malicious can be determined. Additional sensors collect data to associate injected threads with other activities or actors to further e...