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THE HORIZON. “The Evolving Threat Landscape - Swarmbots, Hivenets, Automation in Malware. Over the past several months, the FortiGuard Labs team has been tracking a number of evolving trends related to the FortiGuard 2018 Threat Landscape Predictions article published just before the beginning of the year. This mid-year update provides new details concerning recent advances in some of the techniques and malware tied to those predictions. https://lnkd.in/dBM3R6W View in LinkedIn

SWARM NETWORK. “The information of the prototype's behavior is stored and visualized in the form of a complex network, reflecting virus communication and swarm behavior. The network nodes are then individual virus instances. The network has certain properties associated with its structure that can be used by the virus instances in its activities like locating target and executing payload on the right object.” https://lnkd.in/d5Tah64 View in LinkedIn

PREDATOR AND PREY. “In this article, we outline a possible dynamics, structure, and a behavior of a hypothetical (up to now) swarm malware as a background for a future antimalware system. We suggest how to capture and visualize behavior of such malware when it walks through the file system of an operating system. The swarm virus prototype, designed here, mimics a swarm system behavior and thus follows the main idea underlying the swarm intelligence algorithms. https://lnkd.in/d5Tah64 View in LinkedIn

COMPUTER VIRUS SWARM. “The network nodes are then individual virus instances. The network has certain properties associated with its structure that can be used by the virus instances in its activities like locating target and executing payload on the right object.” https://lnkd.in/d5Tah64 View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL SWARM. “The swarm virus prototype, designed here, mimics a swarm system behavior and thus follows the main idea underlying the swarm intelligence algorithms. The information of the prototype's behavior is stored and visualized in the form of a complex network, reflecting virus communication and swarm behavior.” https://lnkd.in/d5Tah64 View in LinkedIn

LACKING LOOPS. “They will utilise an intelligence originating from crowd stored as a complex network. The network will have certain structure reflecting this intelligence and will help virus instances to visit interesting files in a file system. Basic file system is a tree-based structure. That means no loops. This structure is not very feasible for a swarm dynamics so it will be mapped into the network.” https://lnkd.in/dv5x_qY View in LinkedIn

DUAL EDGE. “Swarm intelligence systems, based on the interaction of a large number of relatively simples agents, rely on emergent intelligence for their problem solving capabilities. When used in trusted autonomous systems, the emergent behaviour of swarm intelligence systems can be both a blessing and a curse.” https://lnkd.in/dRvnSMk View in LinkedIn

LEADERLESS SWARM. “The goal of this work is to use some of evolutionary algorithms, more precisely swarm intelligence algorithms, and make a malware upon them. It follows an idea that the malware is going to have a decentralized behaviour. There will be no master to operate all virus instances but each one of them will act on its own.” A very interesting thesis. https://lnkd.in/dv5x_qY View in LinkedIn

THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT. “In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, there is an increasing need for autonomous systems that can control systems that are beyond the capabilities of human operators. One of the key issues to be addressed in developing trusted autonomous systems is dealing with the phenomenon of “emergence”; either by taking advantage of emergence or avoiding emergence.” https://lnkd.in/dRvnSMk View in LinkedIn

BLOCKCHAIN BOTS. “Bitcoin taught us it was possible to build systems that are deployed between multiple entities to conduct transactions without compromising the privacy of individual participants. This ability makes Blockchain a desirable candidate for creating anonymous C2 systems. Until recently, however, this was just a theory. But now, security researcher Omer Zohar has successfully used blockchain technology to create a takedown-resistant, command-and-control infrastructure for botnets built on top of the Ethereum network.” https://lnkd.in/dBM3R6W View in LinkedIn