8SPYWARE
Spyware is a form of malware whose goal is to gather specific information from as many users as possible. Attackers might use this information in a variety of ways, such as to send phishing messages purporting to come from the victim or to steal money from a victim’s bank account.
Some spyware falls into multiple categories. For example, you’ll commonly find it acting as a banking trojan or as a backdoor. From a detection perspective, this can cause machine learning features for the various malware categories to overlap, so you’ll rarely find a clean separation between the different types of malware and their properties.
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