MITRE ATLAS 2026.09 / technique reference
AML.T0048.004
AI Intellectual Property Theft
MITRE source definition
Adversaries may exfiltrate AI artifacts to steal intellectual property and cause economic harm to the victim organization.
Proprietary training data is costly to collect and annotate and may be a target for Exfiltration and theft.
AIaaS providers charge for use of their API. An adversary who has stolen a model via Exfiltration or via [Extract AI Model](/techniques/AML.T0024.002) now has unlimited use of that service without paying the owner of the intellectual property.
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Parent, sub-techniques and ATT&CK references
Source-backed defensive context
MITRE mitigations
- AML.M0005 Control Access to AI Models and Data at Rest
- AML.M0012 Encrypt Sensitive Information
- AML.M0017 AI Model Distribution Methods
MITRE case studies
- AML.CS0005 Attack on Machine Translation Services · Exercise
- AML.CS0018 Arbitrary Code Execution with Google Colab · Exercise
- AML.CS0027 Organization Confusion on Hugging Face · Exercise
- AML.CS0028 AI Model Tampering via Supply Chain Attack · Exercise
- AML.CS0056 Model Distillation Campaigns Targeting Anthropic Claude · Incident
- AML.CS0058 Google Photos AI Model Extraction · Exercise
These are explicit source relationships, not independently reproduced incidents or validated detection coverage.
Simulation and telemetry boundary
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For broader context—not technique-specific control mappings—see AI Security, AI Security Course, and detection-validation methodology.
Provenance and attribution
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