cyberattack
Speech parts
1. cyberattack - Noun
2. cyberattack - Verb
Meaning
cyberattack (countable and uncountable, plural cyberattacks)
An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.
cyberattack (third-person singular simple present cyberattacks, present participle cyberattacking, simple past and past participle cyberattacked)
To launch a cyberattack.
Synonym: hack
Examples
A large-scale cyberattack has been planned by cyber crooks where they may use Covid-19 as bait to steal personal and financial information.
Brewers Retail, a consortium of brewing conglomerates that owns the retail chain known as The Beer Store, was targeted by a cyberattack that wiped out most of the network's payment processing capabilities.
A different cryptocurrency exchange, EtherDelta, took to Twitter to alert its customers to a cyberattack on its systems.
“If this charge is proven in court, it would mean that the PLA conducted a deliberate, state-sponsored, cyberattack against Canadians, in order to steal their personal information,” the letter says.
He added that talk of a cyberattack was “way too premature and that invoking the specter of digital sabotage might be a convenient explanation for natural events, or incompetence.
Even Iran’s most successful cyberattack — on Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, which devastated thousands of the company’s computers and cost millions — had limited impact on oil prices or global oil supply.