Meanings
plural cybercriminals
- A perpetrator of cybercrime.
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.
2022 December 22, Zack Whittaker, “LastPass says hackers stole customers' password vaults”, in TechCrunch
- not comparableRelating to cybercrime.
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.
2011, Will Gragido, John Pirc, Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector Threats, Newnes, →ISBN, page 9
Origin
- Ancient Greekκυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)
- Englishcyberneticclip.
- Englishcyber-
- Englishcriminal
- Englishcybercriminal
Translations
Basque zibergaizkile
- zibergaizkileperpetrator of cybercrime
Dutch cybercrimineel
- cybercrimineelperpetrator of cybercrime
Finnish kyberrikollinen
- kyberrikollinenperpetrator of cybercrime
French cybercriminel
- cybercriminelperpetrator of cybercrime
Irish cibearchoirpeach
- cibearchoirpeachperpetrator of cybercrime
Polish cyberprzestępca
- cyberprzestępcaperpetrator of cybercrime
Russian киберпреступник
- киберпреступник (kiberprestupnik)perpetrator of cybercrime
Cite this entry
cybercriminal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercriminal
“cybercriminal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercriminal. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cybercriminal,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercriminal.
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