Quick Glossary: Malware

Malware is an insidious infection that will steal productivity from your enterprise and potentially wreak havoc on your network.

To prevent and counteract malware, it’s important to know the terminology surrounding it. This list of terms from TechRepublic Premium will help you grasp the vocabulary that describes malware and the technology that spawns it.

From the glossary:

STEGOMALWARE

A type of malware that uses steganography to avoid detection. Steganography is the practice of concealing a file, message, image or video within another file, message, image or video. For the perpetrators, the advantage of using steganography is that the intended secret message does not attract attention to itself.

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