US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Oct. 20 for "Deep learning pipeline to detect malicious command control traffic" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,700, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deep learning pipeline to detect malicious command control traffic" was invented by Ajaya Neupane (San Jose, Calif.), Yuwen Dai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stefan Achleitner (Arlington, Va.), Yu Fu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shengming Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection of command control malware is disclosed. A network traffic session is monitored. Automatic feature identification for real-time malicious command control traffic detection based on a request header of the monitored network traffic session using a deep learning mod...