US Patent Issued to Acronis International on July 7 for "Virtual file honey pots for computing systems protection against ransomware attacks" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,888, issued on July 7, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Virtual file honey pots for computing systems protection against ransomware attacks" was invented by Vladimir Strogov (Singapore), Aliaksei Dodz (Singapore), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual file honeypots (VFHs) are deployed to protect real files in a computing system. The storage footprint is reduced because the virtual file honeypots do not require storage resources. VFHs are generated to appear the same as other files in a computing system, presenting an attrac...