US Patent Issued to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS on May 5 for "Simulation of malware with changing signatures" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,740, issued on May 5, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Simulation of malware with changing signatures" was invented by Alfie Beard (London) and Tom Bowman (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of simulating a propagation of a malware through a set of computer systems, the method comprising: identifying a simulated computer system infected with a simulated malware; determining a first signature of the simulated malware; determining that a mutation condition for the simulated malware has been met; and in response to determining that the mutation period has been met, changing the fir...