A hacked Queen does not shut down the hive. That would be a dead giveaway. Instead, she executes a
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But the attackers have adapted. New research suggests “adversarial pheromone clouds” that don’t hack the Queen directly, but rather convince the workers that the Queen is already dead. When a worker detects no royal pheromone, its failsafe is to elect a new Queen. In the chaos of dual-queen rivalry, the entire swarm becomes a blind, thrashing mob. A hacked Queen does not shut down the hive