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Cognitive Hacking and the Evolution of Semantic Attacks: Psychological Mechanisms, AI-Driven Tools, and Countermeasures in Contemporary Information Security: A Comprehensive Literature Review

2026-07-06

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This literature review synthesizes the growing body of scholarship on cognitive hacking, a form of cyberattack that targets human perception and decision-making rather than technical infrastructure. Cognitive hacking sits squarely within Libicki’s framework of semantic attack, and countermeasures against such attacks are expected to constitute an important area of research in the science of intelligence and securi...

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Literature Corpus work: 4d51ab36-0bbb-5efd-af92-302fc2c79972
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202607.0338.v1

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