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
• If the growing threat from spyware is not enough, Google is now stepping in to fix the issue.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Police said Cid Torrez installed spyware on his wife’s cell phone to track her movements.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 June 2017
• A hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers dumped the spyware on the web earlier this year.
  — Jack Detsch, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2017
• 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
• The messaging app also posted a dedicated support article on how it's been protecting users from spyware.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2025
• In a nod to the need for spyware protection, Bitdefender includes a webcam protection component.
  — PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 3 Mar 2025