US Patent Issued to AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT on May 19 for "System, method, and computer program for using malware to defend data" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,574, issued on May 19, was assigned to AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT Ltd. (Limassol, Cyprus).

"System, method, and computer program for using malware to defend data" was invented by Adi Lachman (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for using malware to protect data. A dormant malware embedded in data detects that a preconfigured condition has been satisfied for self-activation. Responsive to detecting that the preconfigured condition has been satisfied, the dormant malware performs self-activation."

The patent was filed on July 10, 2023, under Application No. 18...