ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,064, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Ransomware detection using inode traversal scoring" 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: "One example method includes monitoring a file access request made by a process, searching, in a pointer array that corresponds to the process, for a pointer to the file that was requested by the process, when the pointer is found in the pointer array, incrementing a score associated with the...