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Living Language Phrase of the Week: Crimeware

03.18.2007

crimeware

–noun
1. Software that facilitates identity theft, phishing, or similar criminal activity.

Earliest Citation:

"The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) today reported that phishers are commanding ever larger arrays of co-opted Internet infrastructure and using it to take aim apparently at smaller financial institutions.

'Overall, the survey and recent field reports tell us that phishers are using advanced crimeware to commandeer larger arrays of Internet technologies and at the same time using them to attack smaller institutions than have been targeted,' said APWG Chairman David Jevans."

— "Anti-Phishing Working Group Reports Phishing Attacks Up 42% in January," Business Wire, February 24, 2005

 

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