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cyber-attack

cyber-attack is the alternative form of cyberattack.

Meaning of cyberattack

Noun

cyberattack (countable and uncountable, plural cyberattacks)

  1. An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.
    • He also points out that if the US does come under cyberattack, we may be powerless to stop the attack.1996 July 1, Stephen Pizzo, “Information Superhighway Under Assault”, in Santa Rosa Press-Democrat

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Forms of cyber-attack

pluralcyber-attacks

Origin of cyber-attack

From cyber- + attack.

Questions about cyber-attack

What is cyber-attack the alternative form of?
Cyber-attack is the alternative form of cyberattack.

Words near cyber-attack in the dictionary

  1. cyber terrorism
  2. cyber transport
  3. cyber transport system
  4. cyber transport systems
  5. cyber-
  6. cyber-attack
  7. cyber-attacks
  8. cyber-Balkanization
  9. cyber-bullied
  10. cyber-bullies
  11. cyber-bully

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyber-attack (page history and authors); cyberattack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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