US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on May 5 for "Detecting patient-zero exfiltration attacks on websites using taint tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,728, issued on May 5, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting patient-zero exfiltration attacks on websites using taint tracking" was invented by William Russell Melicher (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mohamed Yoosuf Mohamed Nabeel (San Jose, Calif.) and Oleksii Starov (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An execution environment has been designed that detects likely data exfiltration by using taint tracking and abstract execution. The execution environment is instrumented to monitor for use of functions identified as having functionality for transferring data out of an execution environment. In add...