CAPEC-405
DEPRECATED: Social Information Gathering via Research
deprecated by MITRE MITRE no longer maintains this attack pattern.
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.
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Explain the attack pattern CAPEC-405: DEPRECATED: Social Information Gathering via Research: how it unfolds, what it needs and how to prevent and detect it in my systems. Use https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/405.html and https://cve.bz/cve/capec/405?via=ask-ai-copy, which lists recent CVEs with the weaknesses it exploits. Cite the sources.Opens a third-party assistant; its answer is its own, not cve.bz's. The prompt holds only this attack pattern's id and public links.
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