cybercriminal

English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ criminal

Noun

cybercriminal (plural cybercriminals)

1. A perpetrator of cybercrime.
   • 2022 December 22, Zack Whittaker, “LastPass says hackers stole customers' password vaults”, in TechCrunch‎^[1]:

     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)

1. 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.