Spam
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
Electronic junk mail or the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
SANS Glossary of Security Terms
Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings.
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon
The abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages.
ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary
Computer-generated messages sent as unsolicited advertising
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 2 pending review
Unsolicited bulk commercial email messages.
Wordset Dictionary
unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed —
Variants
- plural
- Spams
- possessive
- Spam's
- pluralpossessive
- Spams'