Were entering a new age of cybersecurity, where worms will be just as critical for defense as they are for offense. Worms are the attackers answer to the race of getting caught by endpoint defenses and advanced analytics. In the next few years, the frequency of advanced multi-platform worms launched by nation-states and other sophisticated threat actors is likely to increase substantially. Smaller players are getting into the cyberwar game, but without the unlimited resources of bigger players like the US and China.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3214408/its-time-for-defensive-worms.html