ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,346, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France).
"Malware beacon detection system" was invented by Harshvardhan Parmar (Herndon, Va.) and Vinod Vasudevan (Fairfax, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that detects malware by analyzing message logs to identify message patterns that are periodic with similar-sized messages. These patterns may indicate malware since malware often sends beacon messages to a command-and-control system that are often periodic and of relatively similar length. The system may group message logs by the combination of source and destination and analyze each group for patt...