US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Detection and prevention of malicious script attacks using behavioral analysis of run-time script execution events" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,932, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Detection and prevention of malicious script attacks using behavioral analysis of run-time script execution events" was invented by Maor Hod (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Ziv Eli (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique to detect script-based attacks. In this approach, behavioral analysis is performed against a traceable data structure, preferably in the form of a call flow graph (CFG) that is generated at an instrumented end user client browser. The CFG comprises a set of runtime script execution data points and one or more associated...