US Patent Issued to Acronis International on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for detecting malware in obfuscated scripts" (Singaporean, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,289, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for detecting malware in obfuscated scripts" was invented by Kurt Natvig (Thatcham, Great Britain), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for detecting malware in obfuscated scripts. A method may include receiving the obfuscated script on a computing device written in a first coding language, wherein a malware scanner on the computing device is incompatible with the first coding language, identifying the first codi...