There is no term like _cost in woocommerce. 
There are 3 terms that WooCommerce use to store data in database:
1) _regular_price : As the name suggests, It is for the regular price of the product.
2) _sale_price : As the name suggests, It is for the sale price if the product is on sale and if product is not on sale then it will use _regular_price.
3) _price : Product is going to be sell based on _price. So suppose you have on product which is having _regular_price 22 $ and _sale_price 18 $ then product is going to sell at 18 $. So basically you can say _price is decide by the regular_price and _sale_price both.
So there is not _cost term as per my knowledge and experience.
Yes you can target particular category but you need to dig in to database.
First step : Go to your database and find wp_terms table(wp is prefix and it might be different in your case).
Step 2 : Find term_id of your category.
All the category assigned to the product in wp_term_relationships.
So you can write your query and put condition like id(wp_post table) = object_id(wp_term_relationships table).
NOTE: Object ID and Post ID both are same in your database.