cybercrime
or cy·ber crime
[sahy-ber-krahym]
- criminal activity or a crime that involves the Internet, a computer system, or computer technology: identity theft, phishing, and other kinds of cybercrime.
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Origin of cybercrime
Word story
See Internet.
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The cybercrime organization can access virtually ‘unlimited’ proceeds.
“In the place of guns and masks, this cybercrime organization used laptops and the Internet,” Lynch elaborated.
cybercrime
- the illegal use of computers and the internet
- crime committed by means of computers or the internet
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