Destructive threat

A threat tagged as destructive causes direct damage to files or computer systems, often resulting in the loss of important data. Routines such as corrupting or deleting important files and formatting the hard drive are considered destructive. A program that was designed to consume resources in a denial of service attack is also tagged as destructive.

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