cyberact

English

Etymology

From cyber- +‎ act.

Noun

cyberact (plural cyberacts)

1. An act committed by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often illegally.
   • 2014 December 14, Brandon Valeriano, “Five questions (and answers) about North Korea and the Sony hack”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     In the cybersecurity field, we do not have an attribution problem; we have a plausible-deniability problem. It is not that any cyberact is a mystery, given the great context of international events and history, but that cyberattacks can be conducted by a few individuals and those individuals can be disavowed by governments.

   • 2022 September 14, Glenn Thrush, “U.S. Charges 3 Iranians in Broad Hacking Scheme”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     In a joint move with several U.S. agencies, the State Department announced that it was penalizing 10 Iranians, including the three men, along with two entities for “conducting malicious cyberacts, including ransomware activity,” according to a statement.