cyberunit

English

Etymology

From cyber- +‎ unit.

Noun

cyberunit (plural cyberunits)

1. A unit (in various senses) in cyberspace or on the Internet.
   • 1996, Jeff Williams, How to Manage Your Middle School Classroom, page 104:

     We live in a digitalized world that is advancing and changing as you read this sentence, leading to the myth that we are losing our “humanness” and becoming cyberunits in a cyberuniverse.

   • 2006, Athina Karatzogianni, The Politics of Cyberconflict:

     The same cyber-unit also attacked other Albanian sites and the largest Croatian daily English newspapers.

   • 2012, William Hagestad II, 21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare, page 48:

     Once delivered as dangerous payloads, the Chinese PLA cyberunits can exploit these remotely-planted command and control devices, to collect all manner of sensitive governmental, economic or confidential information.