Tyler discovers that software his organization has deployed sends information about the workstations back to a central server. After capturing network traffic that is being sent, he discovers that it includes the workstation's IP address, operating system, screen resolution, and information about other installed software. What type of malware should Tyler classify this as?

Tyler has encountered spyware, software that gathers information to send back to a third party. While spyware is less outright malicious than other types of malware and may even have asked users to agree to release information as part of a click-through during installation, it is still considered malware because it sends information about users, systems, and networks to third parties that is not intended or desired. Trojans are intended to appear like desirable or legitimate software but are malicious; bloatware is preinstalled software that is not needed and takes up disk space, CPU, and memory; and keyloggers capture keystrokes from a keyboard to retain locally or send to a malicious actor.