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Catching ransomware with eBPF: what execve/openat tracing taught me about false positives
TL;DR
talus-process-monitor is an eBPF-based ransomware detector for Linux: it traces execve / openat from the kernel, streams events over per-CPU perf buffers, and flags behavioural patterns β mass file rewrites plus extension churn β in real time. The hard part is not the tracing; it's scoring patterns without crying wolf on every cargo build .
Why behaviour, not signatures
Signature detection on Linux ransomware is nearly useless β most samples are short-lived, often sc...
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