ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,385, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CrashPlan Group LLC (New York).
"Ransomware attack onset detection" was invented by Ajaykumar Rajasekharan (Longmont, Colo.), Matthew Mills Parker (Denver) and Daniel L. Sullivan (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting the onset of a ransomware attack is presented. In an example embodiment, file backup metadata for each of a plurality of computing devices is accessed and analyzed to detect anomalous file backup activity of individual ones of the computing devices. A determination is made as to whether the detected anomalous file backup activity of at least some of the compu...