So it begins, the ongoing saga of cyberbadness

Cyberbadness is a handy word for "all the bad things that are done with, to, or by computers."

The world needs the word cyberdbadness because other words fall short. For example, a lot of cyberbadness is cybercrime, but not all the of the ways in which digital technology is misused and abused are crimes at all times or in all places. 

The term "cyberbadness" was coined by the network security expert Cameron Camp.

Used narrowly, cyberbadness can be defined as: "the misuse and abuse of digital technology for selfish and/or malicious ends." This ranges from malicious code that damages systems or steals information from them, all the way through email scams and online fraud to disinformation campaigns on social media. A broader use of cyberbadness encompasses the negative impact of computer systems on the environment, economics, and social justice.

The need for words to describe dirty deeds done with computers is documented with considerable humour by the pioneering researcher: Don Parker. During the first half of the 1970s he tracked reports of such deeds, but because his employer at the time would not let him use the term computer crime, he settled on computer abuse. See footnote 64 of the law journal article Advancing Accurate and Objective Cybercrime Metrics by Stephen Cobb which references a book worth borrowing: Crime by Computer by Don B. Parker (1976).