INSTRUCTION MONITORING FOR DYNAMIC CLOUD WORKLOAD REALLOCATION BASED ON RANSOMWARE ATTACKS

Abstract

The present embodiments relate to identifying a ransomware attack. One embodiment relates to a method comprising configuring an operating system to collect metrics related to a hardware component. A message can be received from a user space library to validate an instruction detected in a cache, the instruction being associated with the hardware component. A metric can be compared to a threshold metric. The metric can be associated with the hardware component. A likelihood of a ransomware attack can be determined based at least in part on the comparison. A message can be transmitted to the user space library comprising the determination of the likelihood of the ransomware.

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