Man-in-the-middle attack

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A form of active wiretapping attack in which the attacker intercepts and selectively modifies communicated data to masquerade as one or more of the entities involved in a communication association.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Threat90%rule-basedr:entity.threat.attack.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: MitM
plural: Man-in-the-middle attacks
possessive: Man-in-the-middle attack's
pluralpossessive: Man-in-the-middle attacks'

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