spyware
间谍软件,间谍程序,蠕虫软件,蠕虫病毒
Definitions
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- : Computers. software that is installed surreptitiously and gathers information about an internet user's browsing habits, intercepts the user's personal data, etc., transmitting this information to a third party: a parent's use of spyware to monitor a child's online activities.
- : tools that are used to conduct espionage: sophisticated spyware that rivals that of the CIA.
Examples
In June, the antivirus company Malwarebytes found that there was a 780% increase in the detection of monitoring apps and a 1677% increase in the detection of spyware since January.
WhatsApp accused the spyware maker of using a since-closed vulnerability in the messaging service to install spyware on the phones of at least 1,400 users.
It’s widely agreed, even within the spyware industry itself, that reform makes sense—but this regulation is only the beginning.
A recent draft US intelligence bill would require a government report on commercial spyware and surveillance technology.
Hulio says that often NSO is accused of work that other spyware companies are responsible for.
But a bit of spyware injected into the activist movement may have been sent to do the trick.
They found that all the information captured by the spyware was sent to a remote server in Korea.
What they found was a piece of spyware siphoning data and creating audio files of voice calls.
At first, Stuxnet was thought to be spyware; its goal, industrial espionage.
A new poll reveals that 88 percent of Chinese internet users do not want the new spyware in their computers.
Who voted to put the cameras in our classrooms and follow us around with creepy spyware chips in our transit passes and cars?