US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on Dec. 30 for "Detection of Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver attacks in Windows-based systems" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,391, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Detection of Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver attacks in Windows-based systems" was invented by Wen-Tsung Hu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chieh-Teng Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Da Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Jung Su (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attacks are detected in Windows-based desktop computers. An opening of a device handle to a device object by a process is detected in the desktop computer. An object path that is used in the opening of the device handle is obtained and parsed to identify a device name of the dev...