Tactic: Impact

Technique: Denial Of Availability

Once an attacker has (sufficient) access to the autonomous robot, it could use any number of techniques from the "disturbance" tactic to ensure that the robot is not available anymore. This is similar to a denial of service attack, but in a denial of availability attack, the entire machine becomes unresponsive, instead of just a single service.

Technique in practice

Article: availability attack Video: DDoS attack

Mitigations

The mitigation techniques discussed in the "disturbance" tactic should be considered most. The techniques described in said tactic are most likely to cause a denial of availability.

Detections

A simple health check service could detect whether the robot is still accessible.

Documented incidents with autonomous robots

No incidents known at the time of writing.

Documented incidents in other domains

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