US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 18 for "Ransomware discovery by detection of transmit/overwrite processes" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,230, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Ransomware discovery by detection of transmit/overwrite processes" 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 write operations requested by a process with respect to data, determining whether the data is being transmitted, by the same process, to a recipient that is unknown or unauthorized to receive the data, when it is determined that the data is bein...