US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 8 for "Automated fuzzy hash based signature collecting system for malware detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,484, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated fuzzy hash based signature collecting system for malware detection" was invented by Yang Ji (San Jose, Calif.), Wenjun Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Xiao Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated fuzzy hash based signature collection is disclosed. A set of candidate fuzzy hashes corresponding to a set of false negative samples is received. A false positive reduction analysis is performed on the received set of candidate fuzzy hashes to generate a reduced set of fuzzy hashes. At least a portion of the reduced set of ...