US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Method and apparatus for determining compromised host" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,786, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for determining compromised host" was invented by Duo Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes: receiving, from a host, a DNS domain name request forwarded by the internal DNS server; in response to a domain name carried in the DNS domain name request being a malicious domain name, determining a fake internet protocol (IP) address that is in a one-to-one correspondence with the malicious domain name; returning the fake IP address to the host via the internal DNS server; re...