Patent 9038178 was granted and assigned to EMC on May, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Malware beaconing activity detection is disclosed, including: monitoring a plurality of conversations between an internal device and one or more external destinations; extracting feature sets based at least in part on the plurality of conversations; and determining that a conversation of the plurality of conversations is anomalous based at least in part on the extracted feature sets.