Sentences with phrase «by key logger»

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Cybersecurity is a critical topic as people scramble to address the increasing danger of being hacked; being infected by malware such as Trojans, worms, and key loggers; or becoming the latest victim of ransomware that holds digital data hostage until they pay the ransom for the decryption of locked data or the physical theft of a laptop, smartphone, or USB device.

Once an app is granted root access, it can do anything — run a key logger in the background without telling you, extract your account information from other apps, or even mess up your device by deleting critical system files.