US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on June 23 for "Preventing EDR termination using vulnerable drivers" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,255, issued on June 23, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Preventing EDR termination using vulnerable drivers" was invented by Or Chechik (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Ori Damari (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Yaron Samuel (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, storage systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include deploying, in a memory used by an operating system kernel of a computer, a hooked version of a syscall that is configured to modify an execution status of processes executing on the computer. Subsequent to one or more protected process...