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Hijack Attack

nounid 2723·updated May 9, 2026
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A form of active wiretapping in which the attacker seizes control of a previously established communication association.

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Classifications

Entity Type

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

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Hijack Attacks
possessive
Hijack Attack's
pluralpossessive
Hijack Attacks'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
§1
A form of active wiretapping in which the attacker seizes control of a previously established communication association.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A form of active wiretapping in which the attacker seizes control of a previously established communication association.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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