US Patent Issued to OPEN TEXT on June 3 for "Systems and methods for detection and mitigation of malicious encryption" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,450, issued on June 3, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detection and mitigation of malicious encryption" was invented by Daniel Vernon Bailey (Pepperell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for detection and mitigation of malicious encryption. A security agent on an infected computing device may monitor data writes to disk, memory, or network transmission buffers for strings that may represent encryption keys or moduli. The security agent may apply one or more techniques to decode and parse the string to either identify or extract the k...