US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Using cross workloads signals to remediate password spraying attacks" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,574, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using cross workloads signals to remediate password spraying attacks" was invented by Dor Edry (Modi'in-Maccabim-Reut, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting password spray attacks. The method includes obtaining information from an on-machine malware detection application for a particular machine indicating that a password spray tool is detected on the particular machine. Information is obtained indicating that the particular machine has performed failed sign in attempts. As a result, a determination is made that the pa...