malware

See also: Malware

English

Etymology

Blend of malicious +‎ software.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.weə(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: mal‧ware

Noun

malware (usually uncountable, plural malwares)

1. (computing) Software which has been designed to operate in a malicious, undesirable manner.

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:malware

   • 2020 October 19, “U.S. Charges Russian Intelligence Officers in Major Cyberattacks”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In a follow-up attack that hit Kyiv’s power grid a year later, the suspects used a second piece of malware, called Industroyer, to cut power for an hour, the indictment said. The malware, according to experts, posed one of the greatest digital threats to critical infrastructure since Stuxnet, the computer attack by the United States and Israel that took out Iran’s uranium centrifuges in 2009.

Translations

software developed to cause harm to a computer system

• Afrikaans: skadelike programmatuur
• Amharic: ማልዌር (malwer)
• Arabic: برنامج ضار‎
• Armenian: վնասագիր (vnasagir), վնասակար ծրագրային ապահովում (vnasakar cragrayin apahovum), վնասարար ծրագրաշար (vnasarar cragrašar)
• Azerbaijani: ziyankar proqram, ziyanverici proqram
• Basque: software kaltegarria
• Belarusian: шкоднасная праграма f (škódnasnaja prahrama)
• Bengali: মালওয়্যার (bn) (malôoẏjar), ক্ষতিকর সফটওয়্যার (kkhtikôr śôphṭôoẏjar)
• Bulgarian: злонамерен софтуер m (zlonameren softuer)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流氓軟件 (zh), 流氓软件 (zh) (liúmáng ruǎnjiàn), 惡意軟件, 恶意软件 (èyì ruǎnjiàn)

• Czech: malware (cs) m, škodlivý software (cs) m
• Danish: malware ?, skadelig software ?
• Dutch: malware (nl) m, schadelijke software m
• Esperanto: fiprogramaro
• Estonian: pahavara, ründevara
• Finnish: haittaohjelma (fi)
• French: maliciel (fr) m, logiciel malveillant m
• Georgian: მავნე პროგრამა (mavne ṗrograma), საზიანო პროგრამა (saziano ṗrograma)
• German: Schadsoftware (de) f, Malware (de) f, Schadprogramm (de) n
• Greek: κακόβουλο λογισμικό n (kakóvoulo logismikó), επιβλαβές λογισμικό n (epivlavés logismikó)
• Hebrew: תוכנות מזיקות‎ ?, תוכנה זדונית‎ ?
• Hindi: मैलवेयर ? (mailveyar), दुर्भावनापूर्ण सॉफ़्टवेयर ? (durbhāvnāpūrṇ sŏfṭaveyar)
• Hungarian: rosszindulatú szoftver, kártevő szoftver, kártékony szoftver
• Indonesian: perangkat perusak, perangkat lunak berbahaya, perangkat lunak jahat
• Italian: malware (it) m, software dannoso m
• Japanese: マルウェア (maruwea), 悪意のソフトウェア (akui no sofutowea), 不正ソフトウェア (fusei sofutowea), 有害なソフトウェア (yūgai na sofutowea)
• Javanese: piranti pangrusak

• Korean: 맬웨어 (maerweeo), 악성 소프트웨어 (akseong sopeuteuweeo)
• Latvian: ļaunprogrammatūra f, ļaunatūra f
• Lithuanian: kenkėjiška programa ?
• Macedonian: злонамерен софтвер m (zlonameren softver), штетен софтвер m (šteten softver)
• Malay: perisian berniat jahat, perisian berbahaya, perisian hasad
• Maori: pūmanawa kino
• Marathi: मालवेअर m (mālvear), दूर्भावनापूर्ण सॉफ्टवेअर ? (dūrbhāvnāpūrṇa sŏphṭavear)
• Nepali: मालवेयर (mālaveyar)
• Norwegian: skadelig programvare f, skadevare f
• Persian: بدافزار‎ (fa), نرم افزار مخرب‎
• Polish: szkodliwe oprogramowanie (pl) n, złośliwe oprogramowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: malware m, software malicioso m, programa malicioso m
• Punjabi: ਮਾਲਵੇਅਰ ? (mālvēara), ਦੁਰਭਾਵਨਾਪੂਰਣ ਸੌਫਟਵੇਅਰ ? (durbhāvanāpūraṇ sauphṭavēara)
• Romanian: malware n, software rău intenționat n
• Russian: вредоно́сная програ́мма f (vredonósnaja prográmma), зловре́дная програ́мма f (zlovrédnaja prográmma), вредоно́с (ru) m (vredonós), зловре́д (ru) m (zlovréd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: малвер m, штетни со̏фтве̄р m, злонамјерни со̏фтве̄р m / злонамерни со̏фтве̄р m

  Roman: malver (sh) m, štetni sȍftvēr (sh) m, zlonamjerni sȍftvēr (sh) m / zlonamerni sȍftvēr m

• Slovak: malvér (sk) m, škodlivý softvér m
• Slovene: škodljivo programje n, zlonamerno programje n
• Spanish: malware (es) m, software malicioso m
• Swedish: skadlig programvara c, sabotageprogram (sv) n
• Thai: มัลแวร์ (mal-wɛɛ), ซอฟต์แวร์ที่เป็นอันตราย
• Turkish: zararlı yazılım
• Turkmen: zyýanly programma
• Ukrainian: шкідлива програма f (škidlyva prohrama)
• Uzbek: zararli dastur
• Vietnamese: mã độc, phần mềm độc hại, phần mềm ác ý, phần mềm ác tính, phần mềm gây hại

Descendants

• Amharic: ማልዌር (malwer)
• Bengali: মালওয়্যার (malôoẏjar)
• → French: maliciel (calque)
• → German: Malware
• Hindi: मैलवेयर m (mailveyar)
• Japanese: マルウェア (maruwea)
• Korean: 맬웨어 (maerweeo)
• Macedonian: малвер m (malver)
• Serbo-Croatian: malver m
• Slovak: malvér m
• Thai: มัลแวร์ (mal-wɛɛ)

See also

• backdoor
• exploit
• URL injection
• wabbit
• -ware

 

Further reading

• malware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Noun

malware m

1. (computing) malware

   Synonym: škodlivý software

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	malware	malwary
genitive	malwaru	malwarů
dative	malwaru	malwarům
accusative	malware	malwary
vocative	malware	malwary
locative	malwaru	malwarech
instrumental	malwarem	malwary

Further reading

• malware on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^cs

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Noun

malware (singular definite ?, plural indefinite malware)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonym: skadelig software

Further reading

• malware on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑl.ʋɛːr/ (usually pronounced in a way approximating the English)

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mal‧ware

Noun

malware m (uncountable)

1. malware

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.lwɛʁ/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Noun

malware m (plural malwares)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonyms: maliciel, logiciel malveillant, logiciel nuisible (rare), pourriciel (rare)

Further reading

• logiciel malveillant on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Noun

malware m (uncountable)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonym: software dannoso

Further reading

• malware on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mawˈwɛʁ/

Noun

malware m (plural malwares)

1. (computer security) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonym: software malicioso

Further reading

• malware on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Noun

malware n (plural (rare) malware-uri)

1. (computing) malware

   Synonyms: software rău intenționat, software dăunător (rare)

Declension

Declension of malware

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) malware	malware-ul	(niște) malware-uri	malware-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) malware	malware-ului	(unor) malware-uri	malware-urilor
vocative	malware-ule		malware-urilor

Further reading

• software rău intenționat on the Romanian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ro

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalweɾ/, [ˈma.lweɾ]

Noun

malware m (plural malwares)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonym: software malicioso

Further reading

• malware on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Noun

malware

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

Further reading

• malware on the Tagalog Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tl