US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Sept. 22 for "Automatic detection of deserialization attacks with Markov chains" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,508, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Automatic detection of deserialization attacks with Markov chains" was invented by Francois Gauthier (Brisbane, Australia) and Sora Bae (Carindale, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a deserialization attack may include identifying, in a byte stream, a class name corresponding to a class, generating, for the class, a feature vector, generating, by applying a benign deserialization model to the feature vector, a benign probability window, generating, by applying a malicious deserialization model to the feature v...