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Data Destruction via AI Agent Tool Invocation

Adversaries may invoke an AI agent's tool capable of performing mutative operations to perform Data Destruction. Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources.

Technique
TypeTechnique
External ID—
First seen2026-08-14
Last seen2026-08-14

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Adversaries may invoke an AI agent's tool capable of performing mutative operations to perform Data Destruction. Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources.

9 recorded

Relationships

mitigates
from AI Agent Tools Permissions Configuration
Mitigation
mitigates
from AI Telemetry Logging
Mitigation
mitigates
from Human In-the-Loop for AI Agent Actions
Mitigation
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from Privileged AI Agent Permissions Configuration
Mitigation
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from Restrict AI Agent Tool Invocation on Untrusted Data
Mitigation
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from Single-User AI Agent Permissions Configuration
Mitigation
uses
from Code to Deploy Destructive AI Agent Discovered in Amazon Q VS Code Extension
Campaign
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from Data Destruction via Indirect Prompt Injection Targeting Claude Computer-Use
Campaign
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from Prompt-Based Attacks Against Gemini via Calendar Invitations
Campaign
1 external

References

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