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Malicious

Involving malice; characterized by wicked or mischievous motives or intentions.

An act done maliciously is one that is wrongful and performed willfully or intentionally, and without legal justification.

malicious

adjective acrimonious, antagonistic, brutal, cruel, demoniac, demoniacal, destructive, diabolic, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, feral, ferocious, harmful, hateful, hostile, ill-natured, invidious, malefic, maleficent, maleficial, malevolent, malevolus, malignant, merciless, ornery, pernicious, relentless, resentful, ruthless, savage, spiteful, treacherous, truculent, unfeeling, venemous, vicious, vindictive, virulent, wanton, wicked
Associated concepts: malicious mischief, malicious prosecuuion
Foreign phrases: Malitiis hominum est obviandum.The malicious designs of men must be thwarted.

DESERTION, MALICIOUS. The act of a husband or wife, in leaving a consort, without just cause, for the purpose of causing a perpetual separation. Vide Abandonment, malicious.

MALICIOUS. With bad, and unlawful motives; wicked.

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Once embedded in a user's iPhone, the malicious software sent back stolen data, including live user location data back to a "command and control server" every 60 seconds.

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ESETs analysis of these malicious tools unveiled a number of notable features.

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Since the research was published, 35 percent of the malicious apps have been deleted, reports Computer World.

Researchers find over 2,000 malicious apps on Google Play store

MHT file using the malicious XML markup tags, no such warnings are shown.

Internet Explorer bug allows hackers to steal data even if browser is not in use

The infection process continues even if user credentials are not entered, with the malware unpacking further malicious modules.

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Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method to predict security threats that can occur in new environment based on malicious behavior information that can be acquired through malicious code analysis.

A Study on Analysis of Malicious Code Behavior Information for Predicting Security Threats in New Environments

We find a party's successful removal of a notice of lis pendens alone does not constitute a favorable termination to support a malicious prosecution claim.

Tort/Negligence - Malicious Prosecution - First Impression - Favorable Termination - Lis Pendens

These malware infections don't execute their malicious code until they're outside of the controlled environment.

Apps with ability to drop Anubis Banking malware, motion-based evasion tactics found on Google Play Store

In 2018, malicious cryptocurrency mining prevailed over the main threat of the last few years: ransomware.

Cryptocurrency mining affected millions of users in 2018: Kaspersky Lab

On top of malicious hoax calls, there were a further 7,966 false fires reported in the West Midlands last year.

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The report said that a unit of the Chinese People`s Liberation Army infiltrated the supply chain of computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer Inc to plant malicious chips that could be used to steal corporate and government secrets.