cyberattack

English

Alternative forms

• cyber attack, cyber-attack

Etymology

cyber- +‎ attack

Noun

cyberattack (countable and uncountable, plural cyberattacks)

1. An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.
   • 1996 July 1, Stephen Pizzo, “Information Superhighway Under Assault”, in Santa Rosa Press-Democrat‎^[1]:

     He also points out that if the US does come under cyberattack, we may be powerless to stop the attack.

   • 2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     In the months before Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's arrival in Beijing on Monday, the Obama administration quietly held an extraordinary briefing for the Chinese military leadership on a subject officials have rarely discussed in public: The Pentagon's emerging doctrine for defending against cyberattacks against the United States – and for using its cybertechnology against adversaries, including the Chinese.

   • 2021 June 2, Christina Goldbaum, William K. Rashbaum, “The M.T.A. Is Breached by Hackers as Cyberattacks Surge”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     In recent months, cyberattacks have also crippled police departments in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as well as hospitals treating coronavirus patients in intrusions that involved criminal groups holding data hostage and seeking payments to unlock the data.

Antonyms

• cyberdefense

Translations

attack over a computer network

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: zibereraso
• Catalan: ciberatac (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 網絡攻擊／网络攻击 (mong⁵ lok³ gung¹ gik¹)

  Hokkien: 網路攻擊／网路攻击 (bāng-lō͘ kong-kek)

  Mandarin: 網絡攻擊／网络攻击 (wǎngluò gōngjī), 賽博攻擊／赛博攻击 (sàibó gōngjī)

• Czech: kyberútok m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: cyberaanval (nl) m
• Finnish: kyberhyökkäys
• French: cyberattaque (fr) f
• Galician: ciberataque m
• Georgian: კიბერთავდასხმა (ḳibertavdasxma), კიბერშეტევა (ḳiberšeṭeva)
• German: Cyberattacke (de) f, Cyberangriff (de) m
• Greek: κυβερνοεπίθεση (el) f (kyvernoepíthesi)
• Hindi: साइबर अटैक m (sāibar aṭaik), साइबर हमला m (sāibar hamlā), साइबर आक्रमण m (sāibar ākramaṇ)
• Hungarian: kibertámadás
• Irish: cibirionsaí m
• Italian: cyberattacco m
• Japanese: サイバー攻撃 (saibā kōgeki)
• Kazakh: кибершабуыл (kiberşabuyl)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: cyberatak (pl) m
• Portuguese: ciberataque m, ataque cibernético m
• Romanian: atac cibernetic n
• Russian: кѝберата́ка (ru) f (kìberatáka), кѝбернападе́ние (ru) f (kìbernapadénije)
• Spanish: ciberataque (es) m
• Swahili: shambulio la kimtandao, shambulizi la kimtandao
• Swedish: cyberattack (sv) c
• Turkish: siber saldırı (tr)
• Ukrainian: кіберата́ка f (kiberatáka)

See also

• cyberextortion
• cyberpower
• cybersecurity
• cyberspace
• cyberterrorism
• cyberwar
• cyberwarfare

 

Verb

cyberattack (third-person singular simple present cyberattacks, present participle cyberattacking, simple past and past participle cyberattacked)

1. To launch a cyberattack.

   Synonym: hack

   • 2003 August 19, Kevin Maney, Michelle Kessler, “Blackout spurs cyberattack worry”, in USA Today‎^[4]:

     A study by security company Riptech found that in the six months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, energy companies were cyberattacked at twice the rate of other industries surveyed.

Derived terms

• cyberattacker

Translations

to launch a cyberattack

• Finnish: suorittaa kyberhyökkäys
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: ciberatacar

Swedish

Etymology

From English cyberattack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsyːbɛraˈtak/

Noun

cyberattack c

1. cyberattack

Declension

Declension of cyberattack
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cyberattack	cyberattacken	cyberattacker	cyberattackerna
Genitive	cyberattacks	cyberattackens	cyberattackers	cyberattackernas

Derived terms

• cyberattackera (verb)

References

• cyberattack in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)