Masquerade Attack
nounid
3225·updated May 9, 2026verified
A type of attack in which one system entity illegitimately poses as (assumes the identity of) another entity.
MWE
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Classifications
Entity Type
Threat95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Masquerade Attacks
- possessive
- Masquerade Attack's
- pluralpossessive
- Masquerade Attacks'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A type of attack in which one system entity illegitimately poses as (assumes the identity of) another entity.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- A type of attack in which one system entity illegitimately poses as (assumes the identity of) another entity.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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