Patent Document ID: 9674222
Application ID: 15166771
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for detecting an attack on a network of victim computers in a victim cloud that connect to one or more Domain Name System (DNS) or Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) servers, comprising: operating one or more decoy control computers among one or more control computers that communicates with one or more victim computers in the victim cloud; identifying threats by analyzing data traffic communicated with the one or more victim computers and the one or more decoy control computers; and upon identifying information suspected of being stolen by a hacker, if the identified information was identified from a victim computer from among the one or more victim computers in communication with a control computer used by the hacker, modifying a lookup table in a DNS or DDNS server from among the one or more DNS or DDNS servers to replace an Internet Protocol (IP) address for the control computer with an Internet Protocol (IP) address for a sinkhole computer for connecting the victim computer to the sinkhole computer; and if the identified information was identified from a decoy control computer from among the one or more decoy control computers, intercepting a transmission and removing data suspected of being stolen from the data traffic while maintaining ongoing communications between the decoy control computer and the hacker.