How to Use cybercrime in a Sentence

cybercrime

noun
Definition of cybercrimenext
  • At home or on-the-go, the threat of cybercrime is never too far away.
    — PCMAG, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The three young men had now, finally, hit their stride with a truly profitable and stealthy form of cybercrime.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The best way to protect against ‘strategic’ cybercrime?
    — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The global cybercrime spree has prompted countries across the region to take a bolder tack.
    — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The hacks are concerning, but Shua agreed with Messing that cybercrime is far from the top issue for Israelis right now.
    — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The state also launched a site that allows New Yorkers to report identity fraud and cybercrime.
    — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2021
  • What Ayres was most interested in, though, is telling a story about cybercrime.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The Royal ransomware gang is believed to be part of the Conti cybercrime syndicate based in Russia.
    — Matt Novak, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • In the world of cybercrime, ransomware attacks might be the sophisticated bank heists.
    — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But cybercrime agencies caution not to be deceived by the seemingly small stakes.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 15 May 2024
  • At the age of 33, Peterson had returned to his native state of Alaska to prosecute cybercrime.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • Interpol believes the metaverse will pave new roads to cybercrime.
    — Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • So, your crime-fighting friend tried to move to a different cybercrime unit—one countering online hate speech.
    — Julius Černiauskas, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Plus, there have been a number of financial scams, cybercrimes, and data breaches.
    — Becca Stanek, The Week, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Lately, cybercrimes have been at an all-time high in terms of both sophistication and number.
    — Mohan S, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In the world of cybercrime and hacking, this is in the category called social engineering.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2021
  • That respite appears to have been a mere hiccup on ransomware's trajectory to become one of the world's most profitable, and perhaps the most disruptive, form of cybercrime.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Photograph: Microsoft Governments and the tech industry around the world have been scrambling in recent years to curb the rise of online scamming and cybercrime.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Often known as Wizard Spider, or part of the wider Trickbot cybercrime syndicate, the group is run and organized like any small- or medium-sized business.
    — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
  • With cybercrime rising and the industry projected to reach staggering heights, there has never been a better time to pursue a career in this field.
    — Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 1 Sep. 2024
  • It is intended to provide a global legal framework to prevent and respond to cybercrimes.
    — Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
  • As more sensitive information goes online, hacking, fraud, and cybercrime are on the rise.
    — Yasin Kakande, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
  • Financial incentives make threat actors much more likely to launch attacks such as ransomware, one of the most lucrative forms of cybercrime.
    — Marcus Fowler, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The people who write ransomware code often cut what are essentially franchise deals for their hacking tools in exchange for a cut of the proceeds—the McDonald's model for cybercrime.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Many independent hackers could use the pretext of the conflict to carry out serious cybercrimes.
    — Elisabeth Braw, Foreign Affairs, 2 May 2022
  • Nealy Cox, who has a background in cybercrime, resigned as the city’s top federal prosecutor in January after serving in that role since 2017.
    — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • One aim of the administration strategy is to shift the focus of blame away from the victims of cybercrime, U.S. security officials said.
    — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Many are taken illegally to Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia where they are held captive and forced into cybercrime.
    — Quartz, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Together with partner states, technology firms, and civil society groups, Washington should work to set down rules for data storage, privacy, cybercrime, and hacking.
    — Rebecca Friedman Lissner, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2020

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