US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on Feb. 24 for "Generation and use of pseudo-malware for black box testing of cybersecurity systems" (Irish, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,438, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Generation and use of pseudo-malware for black box testing of cybersecurity systems" was invented by Robert McArdle (Cork, Ireland), Josiah Hagen (Irving, Texas) and Vincenzo Ciancaglini (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and method of black box testing a cybersecurity system. An attack chain or an element of the attack chain is decomposed into constituent primitives. Primitive codes for the primitives are generated by a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model. The primitive codes are assembled into a pseudo-malware. A ...