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Anchoring Cyber Deception: Evaluating Anchoring Effects in Attacker Choices

This study examines how anchoring effects influence attackers' decisions in specific cyberattack scenarios through two experiments. Experiment 1 compares anchoring measurement methods in Crontab and Hostname tasks; Experiment 2 embeds bias triggers within an end-to-end cyber kill chain scenario.

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What we know

This study examines how anchoring effects influence attackers' decisions in specific cyberattack scenarios through two experiments. Experiment 1 compares anchoring measurement methods in Crontab and Hostname tasks; Experiment 2 embeds bias triggers within an end-to-end cyber kill chain scenario.

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Review limited to the Crossref deposited abstract; full text was not accessed and results were not independently validated.

Reviewed: author abstract. Full-text results were not analyzed.

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  1. Anchoring Cyber Deception: Evaluating Anchoring Effects in Attacker Choices
    abstract · 2026-10-11

Reviewed: 2026-10-16. This record may change when new evidence is found.

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