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Understand how untrusted text, tools and autonomy create new attack paths.
Denial of Wallet
Denial of Wallet is an attack that intentionally causes expensive AI usage to exhaust a victim’s budget.
Think of it like
Think of Denial of Wallet as an input-trust or privilege problem: words can influence software decisions, so boundaries must be explicit.
Real life
Email, documents and web pages can become hostile inputs to AI systems through attacks involving Denial of Wallet.
SRE lens
Huge prompts, long outputs or agent loops can drive token and tool costs.
Remember thisDenial of Wallet is an attack that intentionally causes expensive AI usage to exhaust a victim’s budget.