Malware, short for "malicious software," is a broad category of software which is installed without your permission to damage your PC or spy on your computer activities. The most common types of malware are trojans, worms and viruses.
Malware is most commonly delivered through the Internet and by email messages that misrepresent a program's purpose and function. Thirty-one percent of dangerous websites feature adult content and can be accessed by mistyping URLs or accidentally clicking unknown links resulting in unintentional exposure to objectionable material. Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in which users can transfer files directly from one computer to another is a significant risk for malware and adware.
http://www.mywot.com/en/online-threats/malware
Malware is extremely bad news from a security and privacy perspective. Malware may be capable of stealing account details and passwords, reading the documents on a computer (including encrypted documents, if the user has typed in the password), defeating attempts to access the Internet anonymously, taking screenshots of your desktop, and hiding itself from other programs. Malware is even capable of using your computer's microphone, webcam, or other peripherals against you.
Malware is a catch-all term refering to software that runs on a computer and operates against the interests of the computer's owner. Computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, "spyware", rootkits and key loggers are often cited as subcategories of malware.
https://ssd.eff.org/tech/malware
Note that some programs may belong to more than one of those categories.
bad actors just keep on coding and developing new threats with the stupid dream to get rich soon in their stupid heads. It's a serious moral corruption generated by whatever background they are raised, but that's a fact that is going on out there. Here is the case of that fact, but this one is escalated into quite harmful in threat level.. If released, this will be more headaches for researchers, industry and LEA (law enforcement agencies), so at an internal meeting we decided to disclose it.
http://malwaremustdie.blogspot.com/
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