ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,430, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Blocking of exfiltration events via browser extensions" was invented by Radu Mihai Nedelcu (Bucharest, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cybersecurity data loss prevention service stops users from stealing, or exfiltrating, sensitive data. An endpoint cybersecurity agent coordinates the installation of a browser extension. The browser extension adds content scripts to a web browser that monitor for exfiltration events. The exfiltration events represent a user's browser inputs (such as cut-n-paste or drag-n-drop) that can be used to exfiltrate userna...