How to Use cybercrime in a Sentence

cybercrime

noun

• 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
• 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
• Medical treatment records of more than 700 customers had been published by Friday in what has been described as Australia's most invasive cybercrime.
  — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 11 Nov. 2022
• They were spurred by their own research which revealed Ghanaian banks are beset by widespread identity fraud and cybercrime and spend nearly $400 million a year to identify their customers.
  — Audrey Donkor, Quartz Africa, 17 Sep. 2020
• Warrants were out for her arrest, supposedly, in Maryland and Texas and she was being charged with cybercrimes, money laundering, and drug trafficking.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024