attack
nounid
1546·updated May 9, 2026candidate
Any kind of malicious activity that attempts to collect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information system resources or the information itself.
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- alternatephrasing
- Attack
- plural
- attacks
- possessive
- attack's
- pluralpossessive
- attacks'
Framework definitions
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1 · extended_definition_available
- An attempt to gain unauthorized access to system services, resources, or information, or an attempt to compromise system integrity.
- §1
- An actual occurrence of an adverse event
- §1
- In Computing: any kind of malicious activity that attempts to collect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information system resources or the information itself.
- §1
- An attempt to gain unauthorized access to system services, resources, or information, or an attempt to compromise system integrity.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- Any kind of malicious activity that attempts to collect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information system resources or the information itself.
- §1
- Any kind of malicious activity that attempts to collect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information system resources or the information itself.
- §1
- An attempt to gain unauthorized access to system services, resources, or information, or an attempt to compromise system integrity.
- §1
- Any kind of malicious activity that attempts to collect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information system resources or the information itself.
- §1
- Action targeting a learning system to cause malfunction.
Outgoing relationships
- related
- →active attacknoun
- →passive attacknoun
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.