US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 7 for "Ransomware detection via monitoring open file or process" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,070, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Ransomware detection via monitoring open file or process" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Yeh'iel 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: "A bait file owned by a bait process is created and locked in a computing system. Attempts or access the bait file or kill the bait process are detected. The process attempting to access the bait file or kill the bait process is viewed as malicious and protective operations are perform...