linkedin post 2019-06-01 05:31:34

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HOPEFUL MONSTERS. "There are no known transitional fossils with only partially displaced eyes that would link these asymmetrical flatfishes with their symmetrically shaped relatives. This lack of transitional fossils has been the source of tremendous scientific controversy regarding whether this asymmetry evolved gradually or through a sudden evolutionary leap that produced “hopeful monsters,” as originally described by geneticist Robert Goldschmidt in the 1930s." https://lnkd.in/dvMVSjN View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-06-01 05:26:42

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SONG OF DARWIN. "The more I study nature, the more I become impressed […] that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations [acquired through natural selection] transcend in an incomparable degree [those] which the most fertile imagination of the most imaginative man could suggest with unlimited time at his disposal." https://lnkd.in/eykUy37 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-06-04 04:18:48

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SWARM INTELLIGENCE. “Swarm-based insect colonies such as ants and bees use this process to manage the collection and distribution of resources and workloads. Likewise, artificial swarms can quickly share collected intelligence, accelerate trial and error, and then apply specific attacks to a vulnerability by leveraging those specialized members of the swarm armed with specific exploits.” https://lnkd.in/dBM3R6W View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-06-04 04:17:10

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SCALABLE SWARMS. “I have written several times about the next step in the evolution of botnets being a scalable architecture based on integrated and autonomous swarm intelligence. Swarm-based attacks can significantly decrease the time needed to breach a system by leveraging things like stigmergy, which is a consensus-based social network mechanism of indirect coordination between agents.” https://lnkd.in/dBM3R6W View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-06-04 04:15:13

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SWARM AND BLOCKCHAIN MALWARE. “The accelerated development of several precursors of Swarmbots and Hivenets are especially worth revisiting. Others include the increased targeting of critical infrastructure, the development of automation in malware exploits, and the use of blockchain technology to anonymize the command and control of botnets.” https://lnkd.in/dBM3R6W View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-06-03 05:12:12

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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
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