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Disinformation

nounid 45773·updated Aug 30, 2026
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The process of providing deliberately deceptive information to adversaries to mislead or confuse them regarding the security posture of the system or organization or the state of cyber preparedness.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Threat85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Disinformations
possessive
Disinformation's
pluralpossessive
Disinformations'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)
NIST SP 800-172r31 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
The process of providing deliberately deceptive information to adversaries to mislead or confuse them regarding the security posture of the system or organization or the state of cyber preparedness.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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