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Watering Hole

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-004604

Watering hole attacks involve attackers compromising one or more legitimate Web sites with malware in an attempt to target and infect visitors to those sites.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-004604
FieldCybersecurity
ReferencesNIST SP 1800-21B from ICS-CERT Monitor; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-004604",
  "term": "Watering Hole",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "Watering hole attacks involve attackers compromising one or more legitimate Web sites with malware in an attempt to target and infect visitors to those sites.",
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 1800-21B from ICS-CERT Monitor",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/watering-hole/"
}

Record 4,604 of 4,693 in Cybersecurity terminology (MLC-0102). Request the full dataset.