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malwares

malwares is the plural of malware.

Meaning of malware

Noun

malware (usually uncountable, plural malware or (nonstandard) malwares)

  1. (usually) Software which has been designed to operate in a malicious, undesirable manner.
    • 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...2020 October 19, “U.S. Charges Russian Intelligence Officers in Major Cyberattacks”, in New York Times

Questions about malwares

What is malwares the plural of?
Malwares is the plural of malware.

Words near malwares in the dictionary

  1. malvoisies
  2. malwa
  3. Malwai
  4. malwapa
  5. malware
  6. malwares
  7. Maly
  8. Malyi Oleksyn
  9. Malyi Zhytyn
  10. Malyn
  11. malyngolide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malwares (page history and authors); malware (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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