US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 8 for "Detecting malicious email attachments using context-specific feature sets" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,716, issued on July 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting malicious email attachments using context-specific feature sets" was invented by Abhishek Singh (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Kalpesh Kantilal Mantri (Pune, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for an email security system to detect a malicious email and take remedial actions in response to the detected malicious email. The techniques described herein may enable the email security system to detect whether an email is malicious based on whether one or more files attached to the email are malicious. In some cases,...