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cyberattacker

noun

Etymology

From cyber- + attacker.

  1. derived from *stakkijan✻ — “to stick, stick to, attach”
  2. derived from attaccare — “to join, attach”
  3. borrowed from attaque
  4. formed as attacker — “attack + -er”
  5. prefixed as cyberattacker — “cyber + attacker”

Definitions

  1. The perpetrator of a cyberattack.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cyberattacker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA