Sentence examples for a malicious virus from inspiring English sources

In this case, hackers used a malicious virus that was intended to inflict more harm.

The hackers, who called themselves Cutting Sword of Justice, said that they had slipped a malicious virus into Saudi Aramco on Aug. 15 that destroyed 30,000 computers.

Like millions of other computer users, he had blithely opened the door to a malicious virus that corrupted several files and replicated itself in a swarm of new I-Love-You's, this time purporting to come from Mr. McCloskey.

The hackers said that on Aug. 15, they unleashed a malicious virus into Saudi Aramco, the Saudi government-owned oil company,  in retribution for what they said was the government's support for "oppressive measures" in the Middle East.

In a statement on Sunday, Khalid al-Falih, Aramco's chief executive, said Aramco had restored its main internal network services after they were "impacted on Aug. 15, 2012, by a malicious virus that originated from external sources and affected about 30,000 workstations".

So far, nobody's ever seen a malicious virus or worm of that sort.

He recognized a particularly malicious virus could exploit a car, leading to consequences that range from something as light as ruining the lighting to cutting the brakes.

If you've been on the Internet for more than ten minutes, odds are you've received an E-mail message warning you about a new, malicious virus that can "attach itself to your computer components and render them useless".

North Korea, accused of organising the hacking, denied involvement, but the attack came only days after it was revealed that an advanced, malicious virus – Regin malware – had been spying on governments, businesses, research institutes and individuals for the past six years.

Your business may be the victim of a malicious computer virus that shuts down your operation or a ransomware virus, which scrambles your data and then demands money in return for the encryption key.

Tehran has accused Israel's Mossad, the CIA and Britain's MI6 of engaging in an underground "terrorism" campaign against nuclear-related targets, including at least three killings since early 2010 and the release of a malicious computer virus known at Stuxnet in 2010 that temporarily disrupted controls of some centrifuges - a key component in nuclear fuel production.