How to Use spyware in a Sentence

spyware

noun
  • Did the group ever get rid of the spyware on their stuff?
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 6 June 2020
  • The spyware does not leave a trace of who was behind a hack.
    Palabra, al, 28 Feb. 2022
  • France found traces of the spyware on the phones of five ministers.
    Dana Priest, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • During the weeks-long hearing, the court asked the government to confirm the use of the spyware.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • This is not the first time that the use of Pegasus spyware has come to light in India.
    Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2021
  • The spyware can even use the phone to remotely track and record its user.
    Uri Blau, ProPublica, 12 July 2022
  • If there is any evidence of spyware, the files will make this clear.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 21 July 2021
  • The hoax appears to play off of fears of software used to spy on victims’ phones, known as spyware.
    Ben Goggin, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In the past, the app has been accused of hiding malicious spyware.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Some citizens are trying to push back against the spyware.
    Jane Li, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Forensic tests affirmed the presence of spyware on some phones.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 19 July 2021
  • Many of those spyware apps were served in third-party app stores that are not authorized by Google.
    Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The military signed the contract to buy the spyware soon after the demonstration.
    Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The Israeli defense ministry must approve all sales of the spyware.
    Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • What's important about it and about focusing on the threat of spyware?
    Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The spyware can then eavesdrop or steal data from your device.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Authorities in Britain, France and Israel have since opened their own probes into the use of the spyware in their countries.
    Ellen Nakashima, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Mercenary spyware is one of the hardest threats to combat.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022
  • This is a good place to start, as most spyware tools will need to run in the background to monitor your activities.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Israel is really one of the leading makers of this kind of spyware.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 July 2021
  • NSO Group is far from the only merchant of commercial spyware.
    NBC News, 19 July 2021
  • Paz Esteban, the first woman to hold the job, was caught up in a scandal over her agency’s use of Pegasus spyware.
    New York Times, 10 May 2022
  • This week, though, TechCrunch published a tool victims can use to check whether their devices have been compromised with the spyware and take back control.
    WIRED, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The Biden administration has pledged to crack down on the use of such spyware, saying it has been used to violate human rights around the world.
    Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The group used both off-the-shelf malware and its own Android spyware masquerading as a secure chat app to target victims.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Wednesday’s post is the latest to take aim at the scourge of mercenary spyware sold by private companies.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 July 2022
  • The Pegasus spyware has also been a challenge for Apple this year.
    Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The potential scale of the software’s reach reveals for the first time the extent to which governments around the world are making use of a new private market for spyware.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 19 July 2021
  • The White House’s scrutiny of the contract marks the first test of the Biden administration’s executive order restricting the government’s use of spyware.
    Vas Panagiotopoulos, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
  • This, however, plays into insignificance against spyware, which has increased by a shocking 101%.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

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