US Patent Issued to British Telecommunications on March 17 for "Index based ransomware categorization" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,956, issued on March 17, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"Index based ransomware categorization" was invented by George Kallos (London) and Fadi Ali El-Moussa (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of identifying a ransomware algorithm, the ransomware algorithm having associated a predetermined responsive action for mitigating the effect of the ransomware algorithm in use, the method including exposing a target computer system to the ransomware algorithm, the target computer system containing a predetermined set of sample data stored therein that is encrypted by the ransomware a...