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Recent Examples of attacker
Reducing your digital footprint limits the amount of information that phishing attackers can use to make fake emails look convincing.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Yamal is an impact attacker at just 18 years old, and Pedri is a top midfielder at 22.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Cybersecurity experts now run complex simulations where AI is assigned the role of a toxic attacker, allowing organizations to test how their own AI systems react to provocation.
—Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025
In short, an attacker can use these kinds of issues in software to run malicious code, expose data on the victim’s system, or just otherwise cause system problems with the device.
—PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
This means that a hacker could set up a web page containing instructions that any model visiting the site should, for example, open up the user’s email in a fresh tab and export all the user’s messages to the attacker.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Yamal is an impact attacker at just 18 years old, and Pedri is a top midfielder at 22.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Cybersecurity experts now run complex simulations where AI is assigned the role of a toxic attacker, allowing organizations to test how their own AI systems react to provocation.
—Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025
In short, an attacker can use these kinds of issues in software to run malicious code, expose data on the victim’s system, or just otherwise cause system problems with the device.
—PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
This means that a hacker could set up a web page containing instructions that any model visiting the site should, for example, open up the user’s email in a fresh tab and export all the user’s messages to the attacker.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for attacker
assailant
Noun
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The assailants remain at large.—
Cameron Schoppa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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The assailants walked to a wall of the business near the air pump.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Attacker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attacker. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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