cybercrime

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — crime sits at #559leans written

Other forms: cybercrimes

Cybercrime is crime committed through computers and networks. Report cybercrime.

Most of it is old fraud carried out by new means rather than anything novel. Cybercrime crosses borders, which is why so little of it is ever prosecuted.

Definitions of cybercrime

1nouncybercrimeCrime committed through computers and networks.B2
“Cybercrime cost the firm more than any fire ever had.”

cybercrime is a crime.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*krey-
Latin
crīmen
Old French
crime
Middle English
cryme
English
crime
English, today
cybercrime

From cyber- + crime. crime comes from Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

cybercrime in the wild

Internationally, both state and non-state actors engage in cybercrimes, including espionage, financial theft, and other cross-border crimes.
Cybercrime
Warren Buffett has stated that cybercrime is the "number one problem with mankind", and that it "poses real risks to humanity".
Cybercrime
Crimeware is a class of malware designed specifically to automate cybercrime.
Crimeware
Since 2018, India has been reconsidering its stand on the convention after a surge in cybercrime, though concerns about sharing data with foreign agencies remain.
Budapest Convention on Cybercrime
Russia opposes the convention, stating that adoption would violate Russian sovereignty, and has usually refused to cooperate in law enforcement investigations relating to cybercrime.
Budapest Convention on Cybercrime

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Related words

the crime family

crime

cybercrime — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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