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cyber- +‎ sleuth

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cybersleuth (plural cybersleuths)

  1. (informal) A cyberdetective.
    • 2009 May 12, John Markoff, “Tracking Cyberspies Through the Web Wilderness”, in New York Times[1]:
      For the cybersleuth, hunting evidence in the data tangle of the Internet, the problem is different.
    • 2021 December 6, Andrew E. Kramer, “Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      When cybersleuths traced the millions of dollars American companies, hospitals and city governments have paid to online extortionists in ransom money, they made a telling discovery: At least some of it passed through one of the most prestigious business addresses in Moscow.

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