Resource Hijacking: Bandwidth Hijacking

Threat Actors may leverage the network bandwidth resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability. 

ID: ATAGS-T1226.001
Sub-technique of:  ATAGS-T1226
Tactic: Impact
Targeted Components: Cloud Control Plane
Responsibility: Provider
Created: 18 April 2026
Last Modified: 18 April 2026

Mitigations

This type of attack technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on the abuse of system features.