US Patent Issued to Acronis International on Sept. 23 for "Virtual file honey pots for computing systems behavior-based protection against ransomware attacks" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,411, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Virtual file honey pots for computing systems behavior-based protection against ransomware attacks" was invented by Vladimir Strogov (Singapore), Aliaksei Dodz (Singapore), Oleg Ishanov (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. Events from a driver are analyzed to identify a potentially malicious actor. A confidence level is calculated for the potentially malicious actor identificati...