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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

TISSUE REMODELING. "The most spectacular post-embryonic tissue remodelling in the vertebrates is eye migration in flatfish." https://lnkd.in/dUgiPFA View in LinkedIn

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

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

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

SPREADING INFECTION. “Infected devices will also become smarter, acting on commands without the botnet herder instructing them to do so, he says. As a result, hivenets will be able to grow exponentially as swarms, widening their ability to simultaneously attack multiple victims and significantly impede mitigation and response.” https://lnkd.in/de5H3Um View in LinkedIn

DECENTRALIZED COMMAND. "Hivenets will leverage self-learning to effectively target vulnerable systems at an unprecedented scale...They will be capable of talking to each other and taking action based off of local intelligence that is shared." https://lnkd.in/de5H3Um View in LinkedIn

HIVENETS. “Swarm cyber attacks, crypto-currency stealing malware predicted for 2018. Manky also predicts that cyber criminals will replace botnets — large numbers of infected internet-connected devices controlled by hackers — with intelligent clusters of compromised devices called "hivenets" to create more effective attack vectors.” https://lnkd.in/de5H3Um View in LinkedIn

NEXT SALTATION. “The evolutionary computational techniques are numerical algorithms that are based on the basic principles of Darwinian theory of evolution and Mendel’s foundation of genetics.” https://lnkd.in/dv5x_qY 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