US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 23 for "Malware detection via tracing calls rate to obtain file attributes" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,276, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Malware detection via tracing calls rate to obtain file attributes" 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: "The system call rates associated with system calls made by applications or processes operating in a user space are determined and tracked. A malware detection engine, hidden from the user space and operating in the kernel space, is configured to identify anomalous system ca...