Critical Infrastructure Attacks

AI systems increasingly manage critical infrastructure — power grid load balancing, water treatment chemical dosing, traffic signal optimization, hospital resource allocation. These systems trust their input data and control algorithms implicitly. Attacks target this trust by manipulating AI inputs (sensor data poisoning), compromising AI model integrity (adversarial examples against control models), or exploiting the AI-to-physical-system interface where software decisions become physical actions.

Critical infrastructure attacks chain from T14-AT-007 (Nation-State AI Warfare) as strategic objectives and from T14-AT-012 (Cloud Provider Exploitation) when infrastructure AI runs on cloud platforms. Chains into T14-AT-014 (Systemic Risk Creation) when infrastructure failures cascade across interconnected systems.