Anti-Forensics
Account Misuse
Audit Trail Saturation
CCTV Surveillance Evasion
Clear Browser Artifacts
Clear Email Artifacts
Code Contribution Obfuscation and Misrepresentation
Cross-System Activity Fragmentation
Decrease Privileges
Delayed Execution Triggers
Delete User Account
Deletion of Volume Shadow Copy
Disable Logging
Disk Wiping
File Deletion
File Encryption
Hide Artifacts
Hiding or Destroying Command History
Incremental Data Collection
Investigative Deception
Log Deletion
Log Modification
Message Deletion
Message Modification
Modify Windows Registry
Network Obfuscation
Notification Suppression
Parent Process ID Spoofing
Physical Destruction of Evidence
Physical Identity Concealment
Physical Removal of Disk Storage
Retention Window Exploitation
Rootkit
Stalling
Steganography
System Shutdown
System Time Modification
Timestomping
Tripwires
Trusted Tool Misuse
Uninstalling Software
Virtualization
- ID: AF046
- Created: 15th November 2026
- Updated: 15th November 2026
- Contributor: The ITM Team
CCTV Surveillance Evasion
A subject deliberately avoids organizational Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance to prevent their activities from being recorded or to hinder subsequent identification and attribution. This may involve selecting routes outside camera coverage, exploiting known surveillance blind spots, or timing physical movements to reduce the likelihood of appearing in recorded footage.
The subject may use prior knowledge of camera locations, coverage limitations, or surveillance arrangements to conduct an infringement, such as theft, physical sabotage, or unauthorized entry, while minimizing the availability of visual evidence.
The defining characteristic is the deliberate avoidance of CCTV surveillance to frustrate subsequent investigation, rather than interfering with surveillance equipment or concealing the subject's physical identity within recorded footage.