US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on May 26 for "Detecting bot and C2 activity via web application network traffic" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,103, issued on May 26, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting bot and C2 activity via web application network traffic" was invented by Christian Elihu Navarrete Discua (San Jose, Calif.), Yanhui Jia (San Jose, Calif.), Taojie Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Shengming Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service detects bot activity or malicious C2 activity based on data known to be associated with bot and C2 activity for supported web applications and that can be identified from network traffic corresponding to the web application for multiple communication protocols. Such data can inclu...