US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on May 5 for "System and method for detecting dictionary-based DGA traffic" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,265, issued on May 5, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for detecting dictionary-based DGA traffic" was invented by Janos Szurdi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Weihan Jiang (San Jose, Calif.) and David Qianshan He (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting dictionary-based DGA traffic is provided. A domain name system (DNS) stream is received. The DNS stream is classified using a per domain dictionary domain generation algorithm (DGA) classifier to generate candidate dictionary DGA domains with cluster information. The candidate dictionary DGA domains are fi...