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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
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