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Cognitive Attack Topology (CAT): A Topological Framework for Modeling and Detecting Human-Centric Cyber Attacks

2026-03-31

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The dominant paradigm in cybersecurity continues to privilege infrastructure, protocol integrity, and endpoint resilience, while an increasing fraction of high-impact attacks bypasses these controls by directly manipulating human cognition. This work formalizes such attacks as structured distortions within human digital trust interactions, introducing Cognitive Topological Cybersecurity (CTC) as a rigorous analyti...

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Literature Corpus work: 7a36539b-6691-5f67-bc1d-1b80a3d4c073
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202603.2402.v1

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