US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 14 for "LLM technology for polymorphic generation of samples of malware for future malware detection" (New Hampshire, California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,060, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"LLM technology for polymorphic generation of samples of malware for future malware detection" was invented by Vincent Parla (North Hampton, N.H.), Andrew Zawadowskiy (Hollis, N.H.), Blake Anderson (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Hugo Mike Latapie (Long Beach, Calif.) and Oleg Bessonov (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for detecting a malware sample by creating polymorphic variants of a malware sample using a large language model. The technology can obtain a known malware sample and decompo...