Business operations/infrastructure damage
AI Risk"Business operations/infrastructure damage - Damage, disruption, or destruction of a business system and/or its components due to malfunction, cyberattacks, etc."
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Techniques0Attack methods connected to this risk.
Mitigations0Defenses that may help with related attacks.
Records2Source records unified into this concept.
Risk profile
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Domain4. Malicious Actors & Misuse
Subdomain4.2 > Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harm; X.1 > Excluded
Entity3 - Other; 4 - Not coded
Intent3 - Other; 4 - Not coded
Timing2 - Post-deployment; 4 - Not coded
CategoryFinancial and business
SubcategoryBusiness operations/infrastructure damage
Merged risk records
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MITRISK-Abercrombie2024-58.05.01 - Business operations/infrastructure damage
"Business operations/infrastructure damage - Damage, disruption, or destruction of a business system and/or its components due to malfunction, cyberattacks, etc."
MITRISK-Li2025-66.08.02 - Business operations / infrastructure damage
"Damage, disruption or destruction of a business system and/or its components"
Mitigations
Defenses that may help with related attacks.
No propagated mitigations. No defense is available through the connected attack methods.
Source evidence
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Included resource
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms
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