Glossary
Watering hole attack
A watering hole attack is a form of cyberattack in which a threat actor compromises a specific website to access the confidential information of specific targeted victims. The threat actor generally chooses a site to target based on the victims who are most likely to access it—for example, the actor may target an academic website to compromise the credentials of experts in a given field. In some watering-hole attacks, victims are served malware when they access the compromised website; this malware may be tailored to target a specific IP address.
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