US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on July 22 for "Detecting malicious shell scripts in compute instances of cloud computing platforms" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,285, issued on July 22, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Detecting malicious shell scripts in compute instances of cloud computing platforms" was invented by Alfredo de Oliveira (Toronto) and David Fiser (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud computing platform provides compute instances of customer accounts. A shell script in a compute instance is evaluated by normalizing the shell script to output a set of tokens that are separated by a predetermined separator. The set of tokens is searched for presence of reference tokens. The counts of the reference tokens in the set of tokens are formed into an occurrence vect...