US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 26 for "Data-leakage prevention for pre-ransomware's encryption activity via termination of network-syscall commands using interception analysis" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,116, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data-leakage prevention for pre-ransomware's encryption activity via termination of network-syscall commands using interception analysis" 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 example method includes intercepting a call issued by an application, at a first tier of an analytical structure, determining if the call is a networking call, when the call is determined to be a networ...