malware

malware

Software designed to be installed surreptitiously and steal information from the user or inflict harm on their computer. Never download anything from a website unless you are 100% certain it is legitimate—you never know when a site is trying to trick you into downloading malware. The new wave of malware has been locking users' files behind an encrypted password, which they have to pay the authors of the malware to have unlocked.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

malware

and evilware
n. malicious software; software that intentionally harms normal computer software. (Includes viruses, spyware, data miners, trojan horses, and other programs designed to damage or destroy a computer.) The industry is concerned about the increase in “malware” but leaders don’t know what to do at this point. I used all sorts of stuff to get rid of the evilware, but it’s still there somewhere.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • spyware
  • a steal
  • snaffle up
  • be a steal
  • wire
  • be/get even with somebody
  • evil eye
  • evil eye, the
  • the evil eye
  • skip out of (some place)
References in periodicals archive
"With our device, we can force the malware to mimic benign programs on embedded systems, and this can greatly reduce the potential damage an attack can cause."
In Android, reverse engineering can be used to read an app's code, find vulnerabilities in the code, search for sensitive data hardcoded in the code, and in the analysis of malware or in modifying the functionality of an existing application.
This same procedure is also being utilized by malware authors to compromise legitimate applications by injecting malicious codes into them.
(i) We propose a novel approach using deep neural networks for malware detection which takes CNN and LSTM networks to automatically learning features from the raw data to capture the malicious file structure patterns and code sequence patterns.
(ii) We design and implement MalNet, a malware detection method, and solve practical problems such as grayscale image generation, very long sequences learning and gradient vanishing problem for LSTM, parallel computation for LSTM, and noise data processing.
So far, the malware has spread to the United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey, Australia, Singapore and Poland.
Once the malware detects this, it will turn off and delete itself.
He said all domains known to be associated with the malware are no longer available, a move that essentially neutralizes the threat.
While the backup server Wardle set up allowed him to discover the Macs that remained infected by the Fruitfly variant, it also allowed him to quickly analyze how the malware worked.
"The tactics, techniques and procedures described as part of the Crash Override malware could be modified to target U.S.
Many types of malware include key logger functions that mainly designed to steal the account passwords from their targets
Malware attacks involve downloading a software application--often something seemingly innocuous, like a game or flashlight app--that contains hidden code.
Mobile Malware, Android, Tor Network, Malware Detection, Privacy, Anti-Malware.
IObit, has introduced IObit Malware Fighter 3, a brand new version of anti-malware, with browser security and network protection joined in, helping family users protect their security and privacy from network attacking and threats.
The warning describes a broad class of malware called wiper malware.