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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2021
Applicant:
Datto, Inc., Norwalk, CT (US);
Inventor:
Kurt Hansen, Rungsted Kyst, DK;
Assignee:
DATTO, INC., Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/565 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract
This disclosure and the exemplary embodiments described herein, provide methods and systems for detecting a ransomware infection in one or more files. According to an exemplary embodiment, a low frequency encryption analysis and a high frequency encryption analysis of a plurality of received files is performed to determine if the one or more of the files are encrypted. If a file is encrypted, a watcher is utilized to monitor file events associated with the files for determining if one or more of the files are infected with ransomware.