US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Jan. 27 for "System and method for detecting and/or blocking malware attacks using decoys" (Michigan, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,284, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio).

"System and method for detecting and/or blocking malware attacks using decoys" was invented by Gabe Hoogenboom (Iron River, Mich.) and Jeffrey A. Lau (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to detecting and/or blocking malware attacks using decoys, one or more decoy files are created, files, where the one or more decoy files never return a read acknowledgement when read, thereby crippling at least a portion of a malware. The one or more decoy files are propagated to a system. Responsive to the malware initiating a read process on...