attacker
nounid
1555·updated May 9, 2026verified
An individual, group, organization, or government that executes an attack.
Attested in
No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat92%rule-basedr:entity.threat.actor.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- aggressor
- alternatephrasing
- Attacker
- plural
- attackers
- possessive
- attacker's
- pluralpossessive
- attackers'
Framework definitions
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1 · extended_definition_available
- An individual, group, organization, or government that executes an attack.
- §1
- someone who attacks
- §1 · legacy_primary
- An individual, group, organization, or government that executes an attack.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
- related
- →Threat agentnoun
- →Adversarynoun
Incoming relationships
- related
- ←Threat agentnoun
- ←Adversarynoun