Meta attack pattern
Deprecated
CAPEC-411: DEPRECATED: Pretexting
This attack pattern has been deprecated as it is a duplicate of the existing attack pattern "CAPEC-407 : Social Information Gathering via Pretexting". Please refer to this other CAPEC going forward.
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Overview
CAPEC-411 (DEPRECATED: Pretexting) 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-411.
- What is CAPEC-411?
- This attack pattern has been deprecated as it is a duplicate of the existing attack pattern "CAPEC-407 : Social Information Gathering via Pretexting". Please refer to this other CAPEC going forward.
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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