Sentence examples for malicious text from inspiring English sources

Their attacks used malicious text messages to give instructions to the rootkit.

The action is being taken after it emerged that hackers were able to send a malicious text message to an iPhone allowing them to hijack the device and prevent it from being able to make or receive calls.

The only problem is that there seems to be a security flaw that disables the Messaging Hub entirely, all from receiving one malicious text.

For users, detecting SEO poisoned image search results is obviously harder than finding malicious text search results, but it's still clear that the search engines could do a far better job at stopping these exploits.

Character assassination on Twitter is rife, as are malicious e-mails, texts and other forms of e-torment.

Skulls spreads itself by texting malicious links to all contacts, including ex-girlfriends and your evil boss.

They tricked those voice AIs into visiting malicious websites, sending phoney text messages and emails, and dimming the screen and lowering the volume to help conceal the attack.

And it said it was possible passwords could have been captured in plain text by malicious code when users logged into the site on 3 March.

The spyware – known paradoxically as Pegasus – collects all communications of a targeted smartphone if the recipient opens a malicious link sent via text message.

Lookout Mobile Security, which first spotted the apps being posted to Google's store, said that a total of 27 malicious apps using the text-message scam – which it dubbed "RuFraud" – had been posted there by the end of December.

Within one week of the press conference, the activists began receiving the spyware-related texts and malicious links.