FT Professional Glossary
Trojan horse
A person or thing that is used to trick an enemy in order to achieve a secret purpose.
A computer program that seems to be helpful but that is, in fact, designed to destroy data, etc.
Example usage from an FT article:
It will pay the same fixed fee to Japan’s Shionogi for Cefiderocol, an innovative antibiotic that — Trojan horse-style — uses the bacteria’s own iron uptake system to gain
Excerpt from "Antibiotics: new incentives needed to fight superbugs"
cell entry.
