US Patent Issued to Zscaler on April 14 for "In-memory scan for threat detection with binary instrumentation backed generic unpacking, decryption, and deobfuscation" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,467, issued on April 14, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"In-memory scan for threat detection with binary instrumentation backed generic unpacking, decryption, and deobfuscation" was invented by Sandeep Paul (Bengaluru, India), Sarthak Misraa (New Delhi) and Deepen Desai (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for in-memory malware unpacking and deobfuscation in a sandbox include, responsive to receiving unknown content, scanning an image of the unknown content for packed, obfuscated, or encrypted code; responsive to detecting the packed, obfuscated, or encrypted code performing steps o...