US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 26 for "Detection and prevention of sideloaded attack chains via cloud and fuzzy hashing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,684, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detection and prevention of sideloaded attack chains via cloud and fuzzy hashing" was invented by Jeremy Daniel Croy (Redmond, Wash.), Randal Patrick Treit (Snohomish, Wash.) and Christopher Timothy Kirk (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting sideloaded attack chains. The method includes obtaining first telemetry data for a particular instance of a shared library. The first telemetry data is obtained from a first remote client system as a result of the first remote client system identifying the shared library as a known tar...