US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 3 for "Ransomware detection via detecting system calls pattern in encryption phase" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,595, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Ransomware detection via detecting system calls pattern in encryption phase" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel), Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel), Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System calls performed by processes in a computing system are monitored and scored. The score is maintained over a time window. When the score exceeds a threshold score for a process in the time window, the process is determined to be a malware process and a protecti...