US Patent Issued to Sophos on July 29 for "Techniques for detecting living-off-the-land binary attacks" (Virginia, Colorado, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,520, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Techniques for detecting living-off-the-land binary attacks" was invented by Adarsh Dinesh Kyadige (Thornton, Colo.), Ben Uri Gelman (Reston, Va.) and Konstantin Berlin (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example embodiments, techniques are provided to detect LOLBin attacks using a trained machine learning model that classifies command lines as benign or malicious. The machine learning model may be trained using a dataset of command line data that describes executed binary executable files, sourced from the log of events of compute instances. ...