Zombie
nounid
4707·updated May 9, 2026candidate
A program that is installed on a system to cause it to attack other systems.
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- alternatephrasing
- Zombies
- plural
- ZombiesZombieses
- possessive
- Zombie'sZombies's
- pluralpossessive
- Zombies'Zombieses'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A zombie computer (often shortened as zombie) is a computer connected to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker, a computer virus, or a trojan horse. Generally, a compromised machine is only one of many in a botnet, and will be used to perform malicious tasks of one sort or another under remote direction. Most owners of zombie computers are unaware that their system is being used in this way. Because the owner tends to be unaware, these computers are metaphorically compared to zombies.
- §1
- A program that is installed on a system to cause it to attack other systems.
- §1
- A program that is installed on a system to cause it to attack other systems.
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