External Harms
Description
Adversaries may abuse their access to a victim system and use its resources or capabilities to further their goals by causing harms external to that system.
These harms could affect the organization (e.g. Financial Harm, Reputational Harm), its users (e.g. User Harm), or the general public (e.g. Societal Harm).
- ATLAS ID
- AML.T0048
- Maturity
- RealizedUsed by real adversaries against AI systems in the wild.
- Platforms
- Predictive AIGenerative AIAgentic AIEnterprise
Sub-techniques
Mitigations
ATLAS 2026.09 lists no mitigation for this technique.
Case studies that use it
- AML.CS0018Arbitrary Code Execution with Google Colab
- AML.CS0027Organization Confusion on Hugging Face
- AML.CS0049Supply Chain Compromise via Poisoned ClawdBot Skill
- AML.CS0053Poisoned Postmark MCP Server Email Exfiltration
- AML.CS0059EchoLeak: Zero-Click Prompt Injection Targeting M365 Copilot for Data Exfiltration
- AML.CS0060Cross-Site Scripting via Prompt Manipulation in Lenovo AI Chatbot