AML.T0034

MITRE ATLAS / Cost Harvesting

Adversaries deliberately drive a victim's AI services beyond normal operating capacity to inflate the cost of running them, exploiting per-token and per-inference billing.

Think of it likeLeaving every tap in the building running overnight, purely so the water bill arrives.

In plain English

Metered AI services turn traffic into money. An attacker who cannot break a system can still make it expensive enough that the organization throttles or shuts it down.