New Trends on Malware Propagation: From IoT Environments to Drone Swarms

In this work a brief review of theoretical techniques to design mathematical models for malware propagation is introduced. It is shown that the classical methodology, that considers the basic assumptions of the Mathematical Epidemiology and which is wide employed for designing such mathematical models, is not suitable for the special case of malware spreading on IoT networks. Specifically, some recommendations for modeling are introduced and the individual-based paradigm is proposed as the fundamental framework.