US Patent Issued to Dropbox on May 19 for "Identifying command control attacks using API calls" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,551, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Identifying command control attacks using API calls" was invented by Jason Falivene (Kingston, Wash.), Ivo Ivanov (Kenmore, Wash.) and Carlos Fuentes Bermejo (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collaborative content management system identifies an application installed on one or more client devices that is susceptible to an attack by using the API calls of the application. The collaborative content management system obtains API calls made by the application and derives API call features. The collaborative content management system inputs the API call features i...