Inhibition modeling of future malware diffusion with an evolutionary game theory

In this paper, we introduce an inhibition model of future malware diffusion. The literature has predicted that new types of mal ware that discovers vulnerabilities of normal hosts with the use of the computational resources of infected host will appear in the near future. The infectability of such malware is incomparably high. One of strategies inhibiting the diffusion of the future malware is that we protect the normal hosts by discovering the vulnerabilities before the mal ware discovers them. The inhibition model in this paper represents the dynamics of the malware diffusion based on an evolutionary game theory under situations where we adopts this strategy. Through numerical calculations, we clarify the behavior of the inhibition model.