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malicious activity

nounid 3200·updated May 9, 2026
verified

Activity with a harmful intent, such as fraud, theft, blackmail, vandalism, looting, sabotage, etc.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems1 citation · 1 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.14.02.c.2 ¶ 3

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
malevolent activity
plural
malicious activities
possessive
malicious activity's
pluralpossessive
malicious activities'

Framework definitions

NERC CIP-005-5 (Electronic Security Perimeters) v51 senseview framework →
§1
Activity with a harmful intent, such as fraud, theft, blackmail, vandalism, looting, sabotage, etc.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_pack_match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Activity with a harmful intent, such as fraud, theft, blackmail, vandalism, looting, sabotage, etc.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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