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attack

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Any kind of malicious activity that attempts to collect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information system resources or the information itself.

polysemousNISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

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National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexiconextended definition available

An attempt to gain unauthorized access to system services, resources, or information, or an attempt to compromise system integrity.

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

An actual occurrence of an adverse event

FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017

In Computing: any kind of malicious activity that attempts to collect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information system resources or the information itself.

A Taxonomy and Terminology of Adversarial Machine Learning

Action targeting a learning system to cause malfunction.

Wordset Dictionary

a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase

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an offensive move in a sport or game

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the act of attacking

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ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

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(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

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strong criticism

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intense adverse criticism

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the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)

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a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
approachattemptblastonslaughtplan of attacktone-beginning
alternatephrasing
Attack
plural
attacks
possessive
attack's
pluralpossessive
attacks'