US Patent Issued to Barracuda Networks on Dec. 2 for "System and method for in detection of malicious behavior in software updates to prevent software supply chain attacks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,088, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Barracuda Networks Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"System and method for in detection of malicious behavior in software updates to prevent software supply chain attacks" was invented by Fleming Shi (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new approach is proposed to support software update verification and malicious behavior detection. When a software update package is being delivered by a software vendor to an intended recipient, a software update registry intercepts the software update package and installs the software update on a software update sandbox regardless of the size of the s...