How to Use keylogger in a Sentence

keylogger

noun

• Tap or click here for warning signs your tech has been infected with a virus or keylogger.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2020
• Is there a simple way to see if someone has installed a keylogger on my MacBook?
  — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
• The other keylogger was installed on a computer that is used in the delivery of CPP’s services.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2022
• The device was a next-gen keylogger that could be installed remotely on a computer.
  — Chris Smith, Fox News, 16 May 2016
• Pelton denied knowing what a keylogger was when confronted by the FBI.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
• Such ads have the ability to install ransomware, keyloggers, and other types of malware when users do nothing more than visit a site hosting the malicious link.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2017
• Daniel Lockhart also claimed Powell provided the keylogger and showed his how to install it on his grandmother's computers.
  — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Detecting keyloggers can range from being very easy to very difficult depending upon how and what was installed.
  — Ken Colburn, azcentral, 7 June 2018
• That raises the possibility, at least, that secret data may have been captured by the keylogger, and then transmitted over the public internet to someone outside the military chain of command.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2011
• Wylie said Russian officials could easily have stolen the data from Kogan's laptop with a simple keylogger, which is software that can be installed remotely to track which keys are struck on a computer keyboard.
  — Erin Kelly, USA TODAY, 16 May 2018
• The malware also comes with a variety of Windows components that provide among other things a reverse shell, a keylogger, and a mechanism for recording Skype conversations.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2018
• To thwart early forms of encrypted communications, the feds came up with keylogger software that needed to be installed manually on a target's computer.
  — Chris Smith, Fox News, 16 May 2016
• Once installed, the malware would use a variety of techniques to steal: a keylogger to grab passwords, or creating fake banking pages to trick someone into voluntarily entering their credentials.
  — Wired, 5 Dec. 2019
• Those techniques can force TVs to show whatever video a hacker chooses, display phishing messages that ask for the viewer's passwords, inject keyloggers that capture the user's remote button presses, and run cryptomining software.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2019
• The keylogger is part of a malicious package that also installs an in-browser cryptocurrency miner that's surreptitiously run on the computers of people visiting the infected sites.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2018
• There is no evidence that this keylogger has been intentionally implemented.
  — Michael Kan, PCWorld, 11 May 2017
• During testimony last week, Franklin vehemently denied knowing anything about the keylogger software.
  — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The keylogger was apparently included for debugging during development and is disabled by default.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2017
• Mycicil, a keylogger created by underground hackers in China.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 20 June 2018

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024