South Korea to test grenade-launching drones South Korea has this week announced two new weapons: grenade-launching drones for its military, and anti-ransomware software for businesses. The nation's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has revealed that in 2022 South Korea will test grenade-launching drones that can be remotely controlled over a range of two …
"Can you imagine vaccination drones shooting people with needles.[?]"
Me? Not really. But I'm sure that some of our crackpot right-wing politicians here in the US not only can imagine it, but are mobilizing right wing militas to shut down the criminal mobs of undocumented, mask wearing, aliens who they are sure are roving the countriside doing that very thing.
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Perhaps it's just to identify issues with potential target systems, rather than directly target the malware itself? As you say, AV should be doing that already.
e.g.
Is your OS current and patched
Are you running up to date AV
Does any software your using have any know vulnerabilities?
Do you have a functioning and tested backup and restore service?
Just a thought anyway!
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Isn't "Anti-ransomware software" simply another term for "a decent working backup and DR system"?
Because even the best "anti-ransomeware" software powered by ground unicon horn, rocking horse poop and finely powered fairy dusy will miss the ransonware at some point, and relying that as your get-out-of-jail-free card is a false crutch which I can see beancounters using an excuse for even less investment in proper DR. An excuse that will bite them sooner or later. Bite them hard.
A background task constantly reviewing writes to files/databases. Not every write, but polling enough to quickly ascertain whether all is well, or that the last write to field x was outside of the defined parameters for that field and therefore suspect.
This would require a lot of tuning by the system admin for it to work effectively, and hence not something that would be bundled with AV software.
I did have a go myself at protecting a mortgage / customer db from such an attack, which involved an admin machine that checked dummy records, set up at the beginning, end and dotted all over in-between. If the returned dummy record did not fit the algorithm then the administrator would be alerted.
It never came to fruition though as the admin refused to have the surgically implanted electric shocker fitted to their genitalia, and hence would just carry on fiddling with their golf clubs while the db burned.
When lightweight batteries get invented that will allow drones to fly 24h+ non-stop, it will be pretty much game over.
An army could mass produce them and then when time comes just release swarms of them into enemy cities.
This is why China has invested heavily in Tik Tok so they can get an enormous training set on how to recognise westerners in their homes.
Drone will fly in through the window, do the "job" and onto the next home.
I'm skeptical about the 'when' of the 'lightweight batteries', this field seems to have lagged behind, for years. But, if you ignore the 'lightweight' bit, the non-stop issue has already been covered, think 'loitering munition' and it's not a term from a crappy sci-fi mag, nosir, it's clear & present danger. The future is here and the business a-booming :(
Think of the hijinks that could ensue using a drone mounted up with a speaker... Imagine a whole swarm of them (some really dinky ones holding the tweeters and some bigger drones for the sub-woofers) at an outdoor festival or rave party.
It'd be quite something to have a speaker array airborne above a crowd.
Alternatively, having a lens speaker to whisper into peoples ears from a distance if only to troll them. No end to the fun*!
* until the batteries run out, natch.
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A friend of mine thought launching bombs and rockets from a drone would be a good idea.
Suffice to say, if the drone crashes for whatever reason, you don't get much of the drone back. Also, model rocket engines can burn through that thin aluminum deflector you thought would protect the drone electronics.
Fortunately my excuse was "I'm a software guy!"
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