Spyware

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It is a malware that is programmed to record each activity that goes on in an infected device and also relay it to the snooper. The main purpose of the spywares is to track the online activity of a person and harvest as much information as possible from them so that the hackers can use them for their personal gain like data selling to the marketers or identify fraud. Spywares work without the knowledge or consent of the victims and some of the most common spywares include adware, trojans, keyloggers, tracking cookies and system monitors. This malware possesses the capability to steal the victim’s private keys permitting the hackers to steal the funds.

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