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Attack Pattern

Influence via Psychological Principles

CAPEC-427 · Standard · Draft
The adversary shapes the target's actions or behavior by focusing on the ways human interact and learn, leveraging such elements as cognitive and social psychology. In a variety of ways, a target can be influenced to behave or perform an action through capitalizing on what scholarship and research has learned about how and why humans react to specific scenarios and cues.
likelihood: Low severity: Low
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