US Patent Issued to HACKERSTRIKE on March 25 for "Detecting ransomware attacks in a device based on device behavior" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,976, issued on March 25, was assigned to HACKERSTRIKE Corp. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Detecting ransomware attacks in a device based on device behavior" was invented by Jessica Y. Mercado-Alcala (Mexico City) and Ralph Aceves (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques to detect and prevent malware attacks, and more specifically, a subset of malware attacks called ransomware (which is not to suggest that the disclosed techniques are not applicable to detecting other types of malware attacks that exhibit some of the same behaviors). Example embodiments disclose systems, like a ransomware protection service ...