US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 14 for "System and method for identifying malicious hosts prior to commencement of a cyber-attack" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,458, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for identifying malicious hosts prior to commencement of a cyber-attack" was invented by Andrew Thompson (Stafford, Va.) and Aaron Stephens (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, host infrastructure analysis logic that attempts to detect a malicious host operating within a network prior to a cyber-attack being conducted by the malicious host is described. The host infrastructure analysis logic includes querying logic, profile confirmation logic, classification logic and reporting logic. The querying logic retr...