cyberintruder

English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ intruder

Noun

cyberintruder (plural cyberintruders)

1. One who breaks into a computer system; a malicious hacker.
   • 2007 September 12, John Schwartz, “Who Needs Hackers?”, New York Times:

     And even though his department takes the threat of hacking and malicious cyberintruders seriously, he said, “I’ve got a list of 16 things that I try to address in terms of outages — only one of them is cyber- or malicious attacks.”

Related terms

• cyberintrusion