Cognitive Malware
Cognitive Malware
Short Description: Information designed to degrade human operator performance.
CAT ID: CAT-2022-047
Layer: 8
Operational Scale: Multiple Scales
Level of Maturity: Theoretical
Category: Exploit
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Detailed Description: Refers to attacks designed to degrade human cognition by presenting information to a human operator with the intention of changing behavior and/or cognition, and potentially spreading through social interaction. Exploits Cognitive Bias of limiting consideration to only the given information, and considering information ingested earlier more heavily than later ingested information.
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