MUMBAI, India, Oct. 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441032099 A) filed by Netapp, Inc., San Jose, U.S.A., on April 23, 2024, for 'ransomware detecting using decoy files.'
Inventor(s) include Arunkumar Gururajan; Muneem Shahriar; Mesfin Dema; and Phani Srikanth Bhavani Sankar.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 24, under issue no. 43/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for the operation of a ransomware detection system. The ransomware detection system generates a decoy file based on characteristics of an existing file in a file system. The decoy file is effectively indistinguishable from the existing file from the perspective of the ransomware but contains simulated data rather than authentic data. The ransomware detection system identifies a location in the file system and deploys the decoy 10 file to the location. The decoy is then monitored to detect changes by comparing a ground truth for the decoy file to the current state of the decoy file. The decoy file is checked for changes at a rate associated with the identified location. Where a change is detected, an alert is sent to a ransomware mitigation process, which initiates ransomware mitigation."
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