Windows 10: Blue loading doughnut appearing every 10 seconds. Antimalware Service Executable spikes in CPU

Not sure what's going on with my PC but as of last night I'm getting this weird thing where that little blue loading ring appears every 10 seconds and flickers 4 times in a sequence. It appears once and then 2 seconds later it flicker 3 times back to back. I checked out task manager too to see if anything was going on and noticed whenever the loading ring appears Antimalware Service Executable's CPU spikes from 0.2% to 15% CPU and then back to 0%.

It appears to be stuttering my whole PC. Very noticeable when playing video games as I'll drop around 100 frames during that small loading ring cycle.

Any help would be appreciated.

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