Sentence examples for malicious functionality from inspiring English sources

Finally, the researchers uploaded four skills to Amazon and one to Google that sounded so similar to legitimate services they could launch instead of the real ones, but they contained no malicious functionality.

While Avast says the structure of another component enables it to piggyback on other vendors' code by "injecting the malicious functionality into legitimate DLLs" — describing such techniques as further evidence of the attacker's "high level of sophistication".

Also, we are working to automatically analyze how apps use sensors and distinguish between malicious behaviors and normal functionalities.

In a statement about Flame on its Web site, Kaspersky Lab, a Russian producer of antivirus software, said that "the complexity and functionality of the newly discovered malicious program exceed those of all other cyber menaces known to date".

With out-of-the-box functionality, these platforms allow trolls and malicious agents to easily identify and join like-minded cohorts and present misleading and false information pretending to be just another member of the trusted group.

An attacker can use this functionality in order to embed a malicious file inside a benign file.

Adware-fueled apps might not seem as bad as other apps packed with malware or hidden functionality, such as apps that pull malicious payloads from another server after the app is installed.

This shows the resistance of the proposed scheme to the malicious activities that can collapse the entire MANET functionalities, unlike the selfish behaviour.

It is based on the idea of testing an integrated system, by substituting system components with other, similar in design and functionality that operate in an erroneous and even malicious manner.

"Traceback" functionality is the ability to correlate already identified malicious sources (e.g., source IP, port, ISP, etc).

Developers of such polymorphic malware attempt to avoid the detection of their malicious software by constantly changing the program's appearance while keeping the functionality the same.