How to Use cyberwar in a Sentence

cyberwar

noun
  • Two years ago the cyberwar widened to target civilians on a large scale.
    — Paul Mozur, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Now, the cyberwar has widened to target civilians on a large scale.
    — New York Times, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The cyberwar in Ukraine has been less disastrous than had been feared.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • Israel and Iran have been involved for years in a mutual cyberwar.
    — Yonat Friling, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • In a blockade scenario, cyberwar is a force multiplier for fear.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Researchers say Russia unleashed more wipers on Ukraine than at any point in its long-running cyberwar against its neighbor.
    — WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Russia is far from the only country that engages in offensive cyberwar tactics.
    — Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, Anonymous vowed to wage a cyberwar against Putin.
    — Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2022
  • However, defense spending will be increased for special ops, cyberwar ops, and unmanned systems.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2012
  • The cyberwar has expanded rapidly beyond Ukraine and Russia, new data shows.
    — Tyler Hicks Gaëlle Girbes, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • There’s no cybersecurity strategy good enough to win a cyberwar.
    — Steve Andriole, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • And so a cyberwar between groups that aren’t officially connected to the combatants continues to volley back and forth.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Dune lends itself to many interpretations, but its most compelling might be as a template for future global conflicts, from Afghanistan to cyberwar.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The leaks also demonstrate Ukraine’s willingness to join forces with amateur hackers in its cyberwar against Russia.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The hacker group Anonymous has allegedly launched a cyberwar against the Russian government.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2022
  • There is also a concern the Kremlin could wage a cyberwar after Ukraine was hit with a massive attack that downed a number of government websites this month.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The years-long ethical debate surrounding cyberwar — and its impact on civilians — is no longer theoretical.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The Biden administration is betting the farm on the belief that any world-wide problem will do the trick, with global threats ranging from climate change to cyberwar on the increase.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2021
  • If cyberwar is the hacking of online networks, LikeWar is the hacking of the people on them, using their likes and shares to make a preferred narrative go viral.
    — P. W. Singer, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2023
  • There's a much larger emphasis on artificial intelligence, cyberwar and space.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 1 May 2021
  • Will either of these outcomes, a master algorithm that will effectively end cyberattacks or a cyberwar that leads to societal collapse, occur?
    — Richard A. Clarke, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Alongside the physical violence of the Russian assault on Ukraine, a parallel cyberwar is under way that has little, if any, precedent.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The Russia-Ukraine conflict could trigger a massive cyberwar, New Scientist surmised.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Epic Fury opened with the most exquisite tools available—stealth bombers, stealth fighters, electronic attack, cyberwar, long-range cruise missiles and penetrating munitions.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But the contemporary era of cyberespionage and cyberwar has, in reality, provided yet another domain for Dune’s kanly to play out.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 28 Sep. 2021
  • But as Russia has switched up the tempo of its cyberwar, focusing on quantity rather than quality of attacks, Cadet Blizzard may play a key role in that brutal cadence of chaos.
    — WIRED, 17 June 2023
  • But the cyberwar threatens to escalate into a more serious conflict involving ransomware gangs or Russian and US state hackers.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2022
  • As the volunteer cyberwar over Ukraine grows bigger, the United States and its allies must not be caught flat-footed should this shadow conflict—or the next—threaten to spiral out of control.
    — Elisabeth Braw, Foreign Affairs, 2 May 2022
  • Washington’s most important task, therefore, is somehow to secure significant increases in defense budgets across the full threat spectrum, from terrorism to cyberwar.
    — John Bolton, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Intelligence agencies and militaries seize on hackable bugs when they're revealed—exploiting them to carry out their campaigns of espionage or cyberwar—or spend millions to dig up new ones or to buy them in secret from the hacker gray market.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023

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