US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on May 12 for "Malicious direct syscall call detection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,961, issued on May 12, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Malicious direct syscall call detection" was invented by Or Chechik (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Ofir Ozer (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ori Damari (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Yuval Zan (Givatayim, 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 for protecting a computer by first deploying in a memory of the computer a hooked version of a syscall used by an operating system kernel of the computer A notification of a call to the hooked version of the syscall from a user mode of...