US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Dec. 9 for "Methods to detect malicious stockpiled domain names" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,050, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods to detect malicious stockpiled domain names" was invented by Janos Szurdi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mohamed Yoosuf Mohamed Nabeel (San Jose, Calif.), Shehroze Farooqi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), George Morrison Jones (Warrenton, Va.) and Arun Bala Kumar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for detecting stockpiled domains. The method includes (i) determining that a candidate domain is a malicious stockpiled domain using one or more of (a) a fingerprinting classification,...