US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 11 for "Low-cost data decryption of adaptive-pricing ransomware with honeypot (for asymmetric keys malware)" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,356, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Low-cost data decryption of adaptive-pricing ransomware with honeypot (for asymmetric keys malware)" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel), Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel), Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One method includes detecting, at a data storage site, a ransomware process, taking a snapshot of the ransomware process, using the snapshot to install an instance of the ransomware process on a honeypot system, receiving, from an attacker, ...