A secret bot army is phishing, scamming, and sabotaging our lives

A secret bot army is phishing, scamming, and sabotaging our lives

There is a particular horror that attaches to threats you cannot see. In the days before Iran’s centrifuges exploded in Natanz, when they were spinning faster than their operators knew, when the gauges read normal and the logs looked clean, the malware was already there, silently acting. This condition is that of modern national security: the ambient, permanently contested digital terrain on which something is always happening, mostly out of sig…