Trojan horse
<application, security> (Coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards) A malicious, security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign, such as a directory lister, archiver, game, or (in one notorious 1990 case on the Mac) a program to find and destroy viruses!
A Trojan horse is similar to a back door.
See also RFC 1135, worm, phage, mockingbird.
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