AML.T0008
Acquire Infrastructure

MITRE source definition

Adversaries may buy, lease, or rent infrastructure for use throughout their operation. A wide variety of infrastructure exists for hosting and orchestrating adversary operations. Infrastructure solutions include physical or cloud servers, domains, mobile devices, and third-party web services. Free resources may also be used, but they are typically limited. Infrastructure can also include physical components such as countermeasures that degrade or disrupt AI components or sensors, including printed materials, wearables, or disguises.

Use of these infrastructure solutions allows an adversary to stage, launch, and execute an operation. Solutions may help adversary operations blend in with traffic that is seen as normal, such as contact to third-party web services. Depending on the implementation, adversaries may use infrastructure that makes it difficult to physically tie back to them as well as utilize infrastructure that can be rapidly provisioned, modified, and shut down.

Source modified 2026-05-27. Reproduced from the pinned ATLAS release; inline technique links resolve to local reference pages.

Parent, sub-techniques and ATT&CK references

• AML.T0008.000 AI Development Workspaces
• AML.T0008.001 Consumer Hardware
• AML.T0008.002 Domains
• AML.T0008.003 Physical Countermeasures
• AML.T0008.004 Serverless
• AML.T0008.005 AI Service Proxies
• T1583 Acquire Infrastructure — explicit ATLAS ATT&CK reference

Source-backed defensive context

MITRE mitigations

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MITRE case studies

• AML.CS0029 Google Bard Conversation Exfiltration · Exercise
• AML.CS0051 OpenClaw Command & Control via Prompt Injection · Exercise
• AML.CS0057 Storm-2139 Azure OpenAI Guardrail Bypass · Incident
• AML.CS0060 Cross-Site Scripting via Prompt Manipulation in Lenovo AI Chatbot · Exercise

These are explicit source relationships, not independently reproduced incidents or validated detection coverage.

Simulation and telemetry boundary

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