Silk Typhoon spun a web of patents for offensive cyber tools, report says

Security researchers have uncovered more than a dozen patents for offensive cybersecurity tools filed by Chinese companies allegedly tied to Beijing's Silk Typhoon espionage crew. SentinelLabs, the research arm of SentinelOne, rifled through a newly unsealed indictment from the US Department of Justice and identified at least …

[ChrisElvidge]

So if Govt. uses one of their patented methods without permission,

they can sue for patent infringement? And so divulge their identity.

[Gene Cash]

Why the hell would I patent attack/espionage software?

Isn't the main idea of patents to show all the details of how it works? Why would I want to do that?

[johnrobyclayton]

DMCA next?

I have coded my ransomware tool to prevent circumventing its operations and someone is decrypting the files if have encrypted.

Can I submit a DMCA take down for someone circumventing my mechanisms that force people to pay my business for decrypting their files only after they pay up?

The DMCA is there to support businesses after all.