US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Oct. 28 for "Detecting obfuscated web skimmers based on encoding and hooking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,224, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting obfuscated web skimmers based on encoding and hooking" was invented by Jin Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Tao Yan (San Jose, Calif.), Taojie Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Mengying Hu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yue Guan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for detecting obfuscated web skimmers based on encoding and hooking are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for detecting obfuscated web skimmers based on encoding and hooking includes receiving a sample; performing static analysis o...