the.com/cybercrime
Theft that never has to leave the couch, scale by millions with a few keystrokes.
means Crime committed using computers or networks—hacking, fraud, theft, or scams carried out through digital systems rather than physical ones.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound: 'cyber-' derives from 'cybernetics,' a term coined in the late 1940s from the Greek 'kybernetes' meaning 'steersman' or 'governor'—the one who steers a ship. 'Cyber-' got detached from that original control-systems meaning and became a floating prefix for anything involving computers and digital networks, especially once 'cyberspace' entered pop culture through 1980s science fiction. Bolt it onto 'crime' and you get a word that didn't exist until there was something to steer—or steal—through wires.
- bigger than
- outranks global drug trade in annual profit
- weakest link
- humans clicking links, not broken code
- top target
- passwords reused since 2015
- growth rate
- outpaces almost every legal industry yearly