US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Oct. 14 for "Inline ransomware detection via server message block (SMB) traffic" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,484, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Inline ransomware detection via server message block (SMB) traffic" was invented by Zhibin Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mengying Jiang (Campbell, Calif.), Bo Qu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Sultanbek Omurzakov (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inline detection of ransomware attacks using network traffic, such as server message block (SMB) traffic, is disclosed. A network communication between a client and a server is received. A determination is made, using the received network traffic, that a ransomware attack is being attempted against...