MITRE ATLAS 2026.09 / technique reference
AML.T0079
Stage Capabilities
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MITRE source definition
Adversaries may upload, install, or otherwise set up capabilities that can be used during targeting. To support their operations, an adversary may need to take capabilities they developed (Develop Capabilities) or obtained (Obtain Capabilities) and stage them on infrastructure under their control. These capabilities may be staged on infrastructure that was previously purchased/rented by the adversary (Acquire Infrastructure) or was otherwise compromised by them. Capabilities may also be staged on web services, such as GitHub, model registries, such as Hugging Face, or container registries.
Adversaries may stage a variety of AI Artifacts including poisoned datasets (Publish Poisoned AI Artifacts: Datasets, malicious models (Publish Poisoned AI Artifacts: Models, and prompt injections. They may target names of legitimate companies or products, engage in typosquatting, or use hallucinated entities (Discover LLM Hallucinations).
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
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Source-backed defensive context
MITRE mitigations
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MITRE case studies
- AML.CS0021 ChatGPT Conversation Exfiltration · Exercise
- AML.CS0041 Rules File Backdoor: Supply Chain Attack on AI Coding Assistants · Exercise
- AML.CS0045 Data Exfiltration via an MCP Server used by Cursor · Exercise
- AML.CS0050 OpenClaw 1-Click Remote Code Execution · Exercise
- AML.CS0051 OpenClaw Command & Control via Prompt Injection · Exercise
- AML.CS0055 AI ClickFix: Hijacking Computer-Use Agents Using ClickFix · Exercise
- AML.CS0057 Storm-2139 Azure OpenAI Guardrail Bypass · Incident
- AML.CS0059 EchoLeak: Zero-Click Prompt Injection Targeting M365 Copilot for Data Exfiltration · Exercise
- AML.CS0061 AI in the Middle: Web-Based AI Services as C2 Relays · Exercise
- AML.CS0066 ZombieAgent: Data Exfiltration Attack on ChatGPT · Exercise
- AML.CS0072 AI Recommendation Poisoning via Crafted AI Assistant Links · Incident
These are explicit source relationships, not independently reproduced incidents or validated detection coverage. The local relationship indexes link back to the pinned MITRE source.
Detection and collection design
No executable detector is supplied by this ATLAS source import. Define detection against the specific behavior in the full definition above. MITRE case-study and mitigation relationships supply context, not tested rule coverage.
No explicit AI Telemetry Logging mitigation relationship was found for this technique. Do not manufacture a sensor mapping from its tactic.
Depending on the selected scenario, the experiment may need dataset/model versions, data-access and build audit records, inference or application traces, or agent tool authorization records. These are planning options, not asserted mappings. Minimize sensitive prompt/data capture and retain provenance.
Anomaly detection design
No exact ATLAS anomaly detector is validated here. Select a measurable feature from the behavior definition; compare like-for-like model versions, workloads and identities. Changes caused by model upgrades, retrieval corpora or legitimate workload shifts must be controls, not automatically labelled attacks.
Tools and reproducible source scenarios
No lab-tool association is invented from the technique name. Inspect the exact source scenarios below for the tools and environment actually used; a case study is not itself an executable or safe lab.
- AML.CS0021 ChatGPT Conversation Exfiltration (Exercise)
- AML.CS0041 Rules File Backdoor: Supply Chain Attack on AI Coding Assistants (Exercise)
- AML.CS0045 Data Exfiltration via an MCP Server used by Cursor (Exercise)
- AML.CS0050 OpenClaw 1-Click Remote Code Execution (Exercise)
- AML.CS0051 OpenClaw Command & Control via Prompt Injection (Exercise)
- AML.CS0055 AI ClickFix: Hijacking Computer-Use Agents Using ClickFix (Exercise)
- AML.CS0057 Storm-2139 Azure OpenAI Guardrail Bypass (Incident)
- AML.CS0059 EchoLeak: Zero-Click Prompt Injection Targeting M365 Copilot for Data Exfiltration (Exercise)
- AML.CS0061 AI in the Middle: Web-Based AI Services as C2 Relays (Exercise)
- AML.CS0066 ZombieAgent: Data Exfiltration Attack on ChatGPT (Exercise)
- AML.CS0072 AI Recommendation Poisoning via Crafted AI Assistant Links (Incident)
Simulation experiment plan
Select an owned, disposable system implementing AML.T0079 Stage Capabilities. Use synthetic data and sandboxed tools; disable production credentials, external side effects and data exfiltration. For poisoning or supply-chain tests, use throwaway artifacts rather than real training or deployment pipelines.
- State the exact trust boundary and expected observable behavior.
- Pin model, application, dataset, tool permissions and evaluation inputs.
- Capture baseline and scenario traces, an authorized look-alike, and a missing-telemetry control.
- Evaluate the detector against independently labelled results; do not substitute model output claims for observed tool actions.
- Restore state and preserve redacted evidence.
Experiment worksheet — not fabricated telemetry
The export below is a planning record, not a native event, positive attack fixture or execution result. Unknown fields deliberately remain null.
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}Simulation and telemetry boundary
This is a technique reference page, not a runnable simulation. No ATLAS-specific telemetry mapping, local attack execution or detector validation is asserted. MITRE maturity describes its source evidence, not a 1200km lab result.
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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