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Man-in-the-Middle Attack

Cyber and Technology-Enabled Offenses

A man-in-the-middle attack, also called an on-path attack, is a cyberattack in which the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters communications between two parties who believe they are communicating directly with each other. The attacker inserts themselves between the two parties, for example through active eavesdropping, making independent connections with each victim and relaying messages so the entire exchange is controlled without either party realizing it. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Offense Grade
Serious or Indictable Offense 1
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Has Offense Grade

Entity-backed identity for the offense-grade enum value this offense already carries, resolved to a crime concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The offense-grade fact itself stays on the offense unchanged.

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1. Man-in-the-middle attack (Wikipedia)
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