US Patent Issued to VMware on May 13 for "Preventing activation of malware by exhibiting sandbox behavior in a non-sandbox environment" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,126, issued on May 13, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Preventing activation of malware by exhibiting sandbox behavior in a non-sandbox environment" was invented by Rayanagouda Bheemanagouda Patil (Pune, India), Kedar Bhalchandra Chaudhari (Pune, India), Clemens Kolbitsch (Goleta, Calif.), Laxmikant Vithal Gunda (San Jose, Calif.) and Vaibhav Kulkarni (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes executing unknown processes while preventing sandbox-evading malware therein from performing malicious behavior. A process execution event associated with an executable is detected, wherein the ...