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Capec-583 Detail

Disabling Network Hardware

Detailed Hardware

Parents: 582

Threats: T23 T63 T67 T264 T267 T269 T308 T311

Description

In this attack pattern, an adversary physically disables networking hardware by powering it down or disconnecting critical equipment. Disabling or shutting off critical system resources prevents them from performing their service as intended, which can have direct and indirect consequences on other systems. This attack pattern is considerably less technical than the selective blocking used in most obstruction attacks.

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External ID Source Link Description
CAPEC-583 capec https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/583.html
REF-464 reference_from_CAPEC http://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2011/outages_censorship/outages_censorship.pdf Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship, 2011, Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis

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  1. The adversary requires physical access to the targeted communications equipment (networking devices, cables, etc.), which may be spread over a wide area.

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Availability
Other (Denial of Service)

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