US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 23 for "Malware classification and attribution through server fingerprinting using server certificate data" (American, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,772, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Malware classification and attribution through server fingerprinting using server certificate data" was invented by Blake Harrell Anderson (Chapel Hill, N.C.), David McGrew (Poolesville, Md.), Subharthi Paul (Fremont, Calif.), Ivan Nikolaev (Prague) and Martin Grill (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device in a network receives certificate data for an encrypted traffic flow associated with a client node in the network. The device determines one or more data features from the certificate data. The device determines one or more ...