US Patent Issued to The Florida International University Board of Trustees on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for detecting malicious webassembly modules under source code obfuscation" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,205, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Systems and methods for detecting malicious webassembly modules under source code obfuscation" was invented by Yassine Mekdad (Miami), Selcuk Uluagac (Miami) and Abbas Acar (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and frameworks for detecting malicious WebAssembly (Wasm) modules under source code obfuscation are provided. The system is configured to accurately identify malicious behavior in Wasm modules irrespective of the specific malicious functionality and in the presence of source code obfuscation techniques. Th...