Towards Proactive Defense Against Cyber Cognitive Attacks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15801v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:25:47 GMT
• Title: Towards Proactive Defense Against Cyber Cognitive Attacks
• Authors: Bonnie Rushing, Mac-Rufus Umeokolo, Shouhuai Xu,
• Abstract summary: Cyber cognitive attacks leverage disruptive innovations (DIs) to exploit psychological biases and manipulate decision-making processes.<n>New technologies, such as AI-driven disinformation and synthetic media, have accelerated the scale and sophistication of these threats.<n>We introduce a novel predictive methodology for forecasting the emergence of DIs and their malicious uses in cognitive attacks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 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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