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Main Authors: Rushing, Bonnie, Umeokolo, Mac-Rufus, Xu, Shouhuai
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15801
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author Rushing, Bonnie
Umeokolo, Mac-Rufus
Xu, Shouhuai
author_facet Rushing, Bonnie
Umeokolo, Mac-Rufus
Xu, Shouhuai
contents Cyber cognitive attacks leverage disruptive innovations (DIs) to exploit psychological biases and manipulate decision-making processes. Emerging technologies, such as AI-driven disinformation and synthetic media, have accelerated the scale and sophistication of these threats. Prior studies primarily categorize current cognitive attack tactics, lacking predictive mechanisms to anticipate future DIs and their malicious use in cognitive attacks. This paper addresses these gaps by introducing a novel predictive methodology for forecasting the emergence of DIs and their malicious uses in cognitive attacks. We identify trends in adversarial tactics and propose proactive defense strategies.
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spellingShingle Towards Proactive Defense Against Cyber Cognitive Attacks
Rushing, Bonnie
Umeokolo, Mac-Rufus
Xu, Shouhuai
Cryptography and Security
Computers and Society
Human-Computer Interaction
Social and Information Networks
Cyber cognitive attacks leverage disruptive innovations (DIs) to exploit psychological biases and manipulate decision-making processes. Emerging technologies, such as AI-driven disinformation and synthetic media, have accelerated the scale and sophistication of these threats. Prior studies primarily categorize current cognitive attack tactics, lacking predictive mechanisms to anticipate future DIs and their malicious use in cognitive attacks. This paper addresses these gaps by introducing a novel predictive methodology for forecasting the emergence of DIs and their malicious uses in cognitive attacks. We identify trends in adversarial tactics and propose proactive defense strategies.
title Towards Proactive Defense Against Cyber Cognitive Attacks
topic Cryptography and Security
Computers and Society
Human-Computer Interaction
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15801