CAPEC-433 Target Influence via The Human Buffer Overflow

CAPEC ID: 433

CAPEC-433 Metadata

Likelihood of Attack

Medium

Typical Severity

Low

Overview

Summary

An attacker utilizes a technique to insinuate commands to the subconscious mind of the target via communication patterns. The human buffer overflow methodology does not rely on over-stimulating the mind of the target, but rather embedding messages within communication that the mind of the listener assembles at a subconscious level. The human buffer-overflow method is similar to subconscious programming to the extent that messages are embedded within the message.

Prerequisites

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Potential Solutions / Mitigations

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Related CAPECs

CAPEC ID Description
CAPEC-427 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.

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