ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,225, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Radware Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method for passive identification and detection of botnets" was invented by Vladislav Bukin (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Tom Mark (Tel Aviv, Israel), Evgeny Fedoruk (Tel Aviv, Israel), Namik Binyaminov (Or Akiva, Israel), Nadav Shaoulian (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nadav Spitzer (Jerusalem) and Shai Levi (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting botnets are provided. The method includes monitoring a network traffic to collect network data for a device; mapping the device to members of at least one stored botnet, wherein the ...