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Masquerade Attack

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A type of attack in which one system entity illegitimately poses as (assumes the identity of) another entity.

MWE

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Threat95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Masquerade Attacks
possessive: Masquerade Attack's
pluralpossessive: Masquerade Attacks'

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