US Patent Issued to THALES DIS CPL USA on July 28 for "Virtual canary files to mitigate ransomware attacks" (North Carolina, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,101, issued on July 28, was assigned to THALES DIS CPL USA INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Virtual canary files to mitigate ransomware attacks" was invented by Fnu Pooja (Austin, Texas), Corey Allen (Clemmons, N.C.) and Rajesh Gupta (Jan Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a computer agent and method to detect and prevent ransomware attacks early without losing customer data, without polluting the customer's file system or consuming any space on a storage device. The computer agent installs a kernel mode layered file system driver which is attached to encryption level group of a filter manager. With this layered file syste...