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Fraud Online Safety
Malicious URL
A web address used to deliver harmful content, capture information, or redirect users deceptively.
Malware
Malware
Software or firmware intended to perform unauthorized actions that harm a system or its data.
Malware
Malware Persistence
Malware persistence is a mechanism that lets malicious access or code survive a restart, logout, credential change, or interruption.
AI Security
Model Exfiltration
Model exfiltration is unauthorized removal of model files, weights, parameters, or enough model behavior to reproduce a valuable system.
AI Security
Model Poisoning
Model poisoning is deliberate interference with a model or its update process so the resulting system behaves incorrectly or contains a hidden trigger.
AI Security
Model Supply Chain
Model supply chain security concerns the origin and integrity of models, datasets, dependencies, tools, and build steps used in an AI system.
Identity Access
Multifactor Authentication
Authentication using at least two different kinds of factors.