US Patent 10931689 Malicious network traffic identification

A method for identifying malicious network traffic communicated via a computer network, the method including: evaluating a measure of a correlation fractal dimension for a portion of network traffic over a monitored network connection; comparing the measure of correlation fractal dimension with a reference measure of correlation fractal dimension for a corresponding portion of network traffic of a malicious network connection so as to determine if malicious network traffic is communicated over the monitored network connection.