US Patent Issued to Sophos on March 31 for "Detecting malware activity using kernel-based process discovery detection" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,671, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Detecting malware activity using kernel-based process discovery detection" was invented by Tzu-yi Lin (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Malware attacks seek to identify vulnerabilities that can be exploited by enumerating currently-executing processes in the operating system of a target device for injection of a malicious payload. By detecting process enumeration events occurring at the kernel level, known or suspected malware enumeration activity can be identified and mitigated."

The patent was filed on June 23, 2023, under Application No. ...