CAPEC-405: DEPRECATED: Social Information Gathering via Research
This attack pattern has been deprecated as it was deemed not to be a legitimate attack pattern. Please refer to CAPEC-118 : Collect and Analyze Information.
Overview
CAPEC-405 (DEPRECATED: Social Information Gathering via Research) is a meta-level attack pattern catalogued by MITRE in the Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC). It describes a recurring method attackers use to exploit software weaknesses.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about CAPEC-405.
What is CAPEC-405?
This attack pattern has been deprecated as it was deemed not to be a legitimate attack pattern. Please refer to CAPEC-118 : Collect and Analyze Information.
References
Attack-pattern data is sourced from the MITRE CAPEC catalog (v3.9). Weakness associations link to the corresponding CWE entries on RadicalNotion.AI.
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