attacker
nounid
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An individual, group, organization, or government that executes an attack.
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat92%rule-basedr:entity.threat.actor.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- 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.
Outgoing relationships
- related
- →Threat agentnoun
- →Adversarynoun
Incoming relationships
- related
- ←Threat agentnoun
- ←Adversarynoun