US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Dec. 16 for "Benign network entities based malicious campaign signature generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,903, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Benign network entities based malicious campaign signature generation" was invented by Zhanhao Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chao Lei (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chien-Hua Lu (San Jose, Calif.) and Daiping Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signature generator has been designed that can create a malicious campaign signature with substantial coverage of malicious campaign behavior without impeding benign traffic. The malicious campaign signature generator uses data of multiple, known malicious campaigns to identify abused, benign networ...