AML.T0016

MITRE ATLAS / Obtain Capabilities

Adversaries acquire existing software capabilities for use in their operations, including adversarial machine learning toolkits, exploit code, and commercial or open source offensive tools, rather than building their own.

Think of it likeBuying professional tools at the hardware store rather than forging them yourself.

In plain English

Mature tooling for attacking models already exists and much of it is open source and well documented. Buying or downloading is faster than building, so most adversaries do exactly that.