What Is Malware Author?

What Is Malware Author?

Short definition: Malware author is the name of the individual or group of such who are responsible for programming different kinds of malicious and evasive code.

Extended Definition:

A malware author or Malware authors are the kinds of individuals who are responsible for writing malicious and evasive code, designed for purposes which are most likely to trick a certain system and make it misbehave or compliant. Malware authors may be responsible for white hat (good) activities, like creating malicious exploits to discover zero-day bugs in order to strengthen software security, but they may also be the main reason for a malware infection on your computer of different kinds, such as:

• Trojans.
• Ransomware.
• Miner.
• Rootkit.
• Bootkit.
• PUPs.
• Doxware.
• Lockscreen virus.
• DDoS.
• PUPs.

For more definitions, check our Cyber Dictionary.