attack
nounid
1546·updated May 9, 2026verified
Any kind of malicious activity that attempts to collect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information system resources or the information itself.
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- approachattemptblastonslaughtplan of attacktone-beginning
- 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.
- §1
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- §2
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- §3
- the act of attacking
- §4
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- §5
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- §6
- strong criticism
- §7
- intense adverse criticism
- §8
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- §9
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
Outgoing relationships
- related
- →active attacknoun
- →passive attacknoun
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.