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Synonyms for malware
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. malwarenoun

    malicious software, designed to break into a system

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  1. List of paraphrases for "malware":

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  1. Jeff Wichman:

    The next piece of the puzzle that will likely emerge is a sample of the malware and/or if a true zero-day vulnerability was used.

  2. Apple Inc:

    We have no information to suggest that the malware has been used to do anything malicious.

  3. Nathan Collier:

    Malware like FakeFortnite are … in a ‘ grey ’ area. There may not be an actual malware/infection threat, but sending users down a rabbit hole like this were they are left empty handed is still considered malicious activity.

  4. James Scott:

    In an age of dynamic malware obfuscation through operations such as mutating hash, a hyper-evolving threat landscape, and technologically next generation adversaries, offensive campaigns have an overwhelming advantage over defensive strategies.

  5. James Scott:

    Signature-based malware detection is dead. Machine learning based Artificial Intelligence is the most potent defense the next gen adversary and the mutating hash.


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