Hardware detection and prevention of cryptojacking
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMICHAEL Peter LYONS, Andrew C. M. Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for cryptojacking prevention is provided. The embodiment may include capturing a plurality of processor usage information. The embodiment may also include identifying a process or a program using processing power above a preconfigured threshold based on the plurality of captured processor usage information. The embodiment may further include, in response to determining the identified process or the identified program is not approved by a system administrator, performing an action using operating system workload managers based on preconfigured preferences.
Claims20
A processor-implemented method, the method comprising:
- capturing, by a processor, a plurality of processor usage information;
- identifying a process or a program using processing power above a preconfigured threshold based on the plurality of captured processor usage information;
- and
- in response to determining the identified process or the identified program is not approved by a system administrator, performing an action using operating system workload managers based on preconfigured preferences.
A computer system, the computer system comprising:
- one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, wherein the computer system is capable of performing a method comprising:
- capturing, by a processor, a plurality of processor usage information;
- identifying a process or a program using processing power above a preconfigured threshold based on the plurality of captured processor usage information;
- and
- in response to determining the identified process or the identified program is not approved by a system administrator, performing an action using operating system workload managers based on preconfigured preferences.
A computer program product, the computer program product comprising:
- one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium, the program instructions executable by a processor capable of performing a method, the method comprising:
- capturing, by a processor, a plurality of processor usage information;
- identifying a process or a program using processing power above a preconfigured threshold based on the plurality of captured processor usage information;
- and
- in response to determining the identified process or the identified program is not approved by a system administrator, performing an action using operating system workload managers based on preconfigured preferences.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.