Habituation

Vigilance

Short Description: Habituation is a form of non-associative learning

CAT ID: CAT-2025-002

Layer: 8

Operational Scale: Tactical

Level of Maturity: In Common Use

Category: Exploit

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Closely Related Concepts: Vigilance

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Detailed Description: Habituation describes the progressive exposure to a stimulus, environment, or situation with benign results leading to the eventual relaxation of vigilance or awareness of the cues being habituated. This process may be deliberately employed by threat actors to lower the attention that the target directs toward the feature the attacker is attempting to mask.

INTERACTIONS [VETs]:
Misdirection-Distraction (Exploit, CAT-2022-014)
Gray Signal Attacks (TTP, CAT-2022-193)
Boredom (Vulnerability, CAT-2022-190)
Firehose of Falsehood (TTP, CAT-2022-284)

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