cybercriminal

English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ criminal

Noun

cybercriminal (plural cybercriminals)

A perpetrator of cybercrime.
- 2022 December 22, Zack Whittaker, “LastPass says hackers stole customers' password vaults”, in TechCrunch‎:
  Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers’ encrypted password vaults, which store its customers’ passwords and other secrets, in a data breach earlier this year.

Translations

perpetrator of cybercrime

Basque: zibergaizkile
Dutch: cybercrimineel (nl) m
Finnish: kyberrikollinen
French: cybercriminel (fr) m
Irish: cibearchoirpeach m
Kazakh: киберқылмыскер (kiberqylmysker)
Polish: cyberprzestępca (pl) m

Adjective

cybercriminal (not comparable)

Relating to cybercrime.
- 2011, Will Gragido, John Pirc, Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector Threats, Newnes, →ISBN, page 9:
  When discussing statistical data associated with cybercriminal activity, there are many points to consider, the most salient being a natural extension of traditional criminal activity and by proxy a natural outcropping for organized criminal entities of various denominations.

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