Patent · US Active

Ransomware detection and mitigation

US11409868B2 · kind B2 · utility

3Cited by

7References

20Claims

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Assignee

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. · US

Inventors

Dylan Reid · Atlanta, US
Joseph Soryal · Ridgewood, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 26, 2019
Grant date	Aug 9, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 14, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2221/034
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A processing system including at least one processor may detect an accessing of a file, where the accessing comprises a read operation, generate a copy of the file in response to detecting the accessing of the file, and store the copy of the file in a designated storage location. The processing system may further detect a completion of the accessing of the file, apply a checksum operation to the file to generate a checksum in response to detecting the completion of the accessing of the file, determine that the checksum does not match an expected checksum for the file, and generate an alert of a possible manipulation of the file in response to determining that the checksum does not match the expected checksum.

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