cyberassault

Etymology

From cyber- + assault.

cyberassault means An attack carried out by means of a computer network. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.

noun

An attack carried out by means of a computer network.“Ping floods as well as new and interesting distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are still being developed and have been able to disrupt the service of some of the largest Internet service providers around (as was done in the cyberassaults in early 2000 against Buy.com, eBay, CNN, and Amazon.com).”