The phrase "a program designed to steal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing software, particularly in relation to cybersecurity or malicious software.
Example: "The cybersecurity team discovered a program designed to steal sensitive information from users' devices."
Alternatives: "a tool created to pilfer" or "software intended to appropriate".
Foreign intelligence agencies are carrying out sustained cyberattacks on the UK Treasury, targeting it with malicious emails and programs designed to steal information, the Chancellor, George Osborne, has revealed.
A. Antivirus software can protect your machine from certain tools that hackers have been known to use, like Trojan horse programs (designed to steal passwords) that you may get in the form of an e-mail attachment.
Antivirus software can protect your machine from certain tools that hackers have been known to use, like Trojan horse programs (designed to steal passwords) that you may get in the form of an e-mail attachment.
Senior agency officials concede that much of the technology needed to filter malicious software, known as malware, by searching incoming messages for signs of programs designed to steal data, or attack banks or energy firms, is strikingly similar to the technology the N.S.A. already uses for surveillance.
Those programs include the Community Development Capital Initiative -- another TARP program -- and the Small Business Lending Fund, a program designed to encourage lending to small businesses.
However, one blogger warned that the site might be a scam designed to steal information from visitors to the page.
Facebook is also starting to test a feature designed to steal users from teen sensation app Musically.
Unlike more traditional malware that ferrets out valuable personal information, the group's program was not designed to steal data, so it was not easily detected, private security consultants said.
After first charging the boyfriend, investigators turned to Mr. de Guzman when teachers at the college notified them of similarities between the "I love you" program and one designed to steal Internet passwords that Mr. de Guzman had submitted as a course thesis.
