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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2018
Applicant:
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Carl D. Woodward, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kunal Mehta, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/54 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/54 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a performance monitoring unit (PMU); and one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable mediums having stored thereon executable instructions to provide a kernel space threat detection engine to: receive a PMU event; correlate the PMU event to a computer security threat including extracting artifacts from the PMU event, and correlating the artifacts to an artifact profile for a known attack; and identify a process associated with the PMU event as a potential attack.