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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2016
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph Chen, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting malicious processes that encrypt files may include (i) identifying a backup file created by a backup process on the computing device, (ii) detecting an attempt to alter the backup file by a process that is not the backup process, (iii) determining, based at least in part on the attempt to alter the backup file being made by the process that is not the backup process, that the process is a malicious process designed to encrypt files on the computing device so that a legitimate owner of the files cannot access the files, and (iv) performing a security action in response to determining that the process is malicious. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.