Red teaming
Red Teaming
Adversary Simulation
Simulate sophisticated, real-world attacks. Harden your people, processes, and technology before adversaries strike.
At HyperCrackers, our Red Teaming service goes beyond standard vulnerability scans and penetration tests. We simulate full-scale, multi-layered attacks that mirror techniques used by advanced persistent threats (APTs), cybercriminal gangs, and nation-state actors. The goal: to test your organization’s detection, containment, and response capabilities under realistic pressure and reveal strategic weaknesses that point-in-time tests miss.
Red Teaming is strategic — it validates your security assumptions, measures the effectiveness of controls across the enterprise, and produces actionable recommendations that reduce business risk.
Typical engagement types;
1. Full-scope Red Team Engagement
A comprehensive simulation covering external, internal, and human attack surfaces. Includes social engineering, physical security testing (optional and scoped), cloud and on-premises infrastructure, and long-duration operations to evaluate detection and response. Ideal for: organizations wanting end-to-end validation of cyber defenses.
2. Targeted Red Team Exercise
Focused on a specific asset, business unit, or attack vector — for example, a high-value application, executive accounts, or critical cloud infrastructure. Ideal for: prioritizing risk reduction in a high-value area.
3. Purple Team Collaboration
A joint exercise where our Red Team works closely with your Blue Team to test hypotheses, tune detections, and iterate on detection engineering in real time. Ideal for: organizations that want both validation and capability uplift.
4. Adversary Emulation & Threat Hunting Exercises
We emulate a named threat actor or campaign to test threat hunting maturity, SOC playbooks, and forensic readiness. Ideal for: security operations teams preparing for specific threat profiles.
Who this is for
Mid-sized to large enterprises with complex IT environments
Organizations regulated by compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST, ISO 27001)
Companies that store sensitive customer, financial, or intellectual property data
Security teams that want to evaluate incident response and SOC maturity
Board and executive teams seeking independent assurance of cyber resilience
Why choose HyperCrackers for Red Teaming
Operator expertise: Our Red Teamers include former blue-team defenders, incident responders, and ethical hackers with experience across e-commerce, financial services, cloud platforms, and critical infrastructure.
Realistic adversary emulation: We tailor attack scenarios to your threat profile, using TTPs (tactics, techniques, and procedures) aligned with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
Business-contextual testing: We focus on attack paths that matter to your business — not just easy wins or CVE checklists.
Stealth and restraint: Our team conducts exercises with operational discipline to avoid business disruption while preserving realism.
Clear, prioritized deliverables: Actionable remediation plans, threat narratives, and executive summaries that communicate technical findings in business terms.
How We Operate
We follow a structured, transparent approach that balances realism with safety and compliance.
1. Scope & Rules of Engagement
We define clear objectives, allowed actions, legal boundaries, blackout windows, and escalation paths. We identify critical systems and exclusion lists to avoid operational impact.
2. Reconnaissance & Intelligence Gathering
Passive and active reconnaissance to map internet-facing assets, employee footprint, and third-party supply chain exposure.
3. Initial Access
Phishing, credential stuffing, exploiting exposed services, or physical entry (if in scope) to gain a foothold.
4. Privileged Escalation & Lateral Movement
Using stealthy techniques to escalate privileges and move across networks to reach target assets.
5. Persistence & Data Exfiltration
Demonstrating how an adversary could persist and extract valuable data without detection.
6. Action on Objectives
Completing business-oriented goals such as accessing PII, financial records, or critical systems to demonstrate real impact.
7. Cleanup & Containment
We remove tools and artifacts, provide a timeline of all activity, and coordinate with your team to ensure systems are returned to their pre-engagement state.
8. Reporting & Debrief
A comprehensive technical report, a concise executive summary, and a live debrief for leadership and technical teams.
Deliverables
Every HyperCrackers Red Team engagement includes a set of practical, prioritized outputs:
Executive Summary: One-page brief describing the exercise objectives, outcomes, and business impact in non-technical language for leadership and boards.
Technical Attack Narrative: A step-by-step timeline showing how we gained access, moved laterally, and achieved objectives, with supporting evidence and screenshots/log extracts where appropriate.
Risk-Ranked Findings: Vulnerabilities and control gaps ranked by exploitability and business impact, with recommended fixes and suggested timelines.
Detection & Response Recommendations: Concrete guidance for your SOC — new detection rules, log sources to enable, and improvements to playbooks and runbooks.
Remediation Roadmap: Triage plan that maps quick wins, medium-term changes, and strategic investments to close attack paths.
IOC & TTP Package: Indicators of compromise, YARA or Sigma rules, and a mapping to MITRE ATT&CK techniques for SOC ingestion.
Post-Engagement War Room / Tabletop (optional): Facilitate a cross-functional session to rehearse incident response using lessons learned.
What to expect during the engagement
Minimal disruption: We design tests to avoid business interruption; critical systems can be excluded or tested only in safe windows.
Transparent communication: A single point of contact from HyperCrackers will coordinate with your team and provide real-time updates for any safety incidents.
Evidence-driven findings: Every claim in our reports is backed by artifacts — logs, packet captures, and reproducible steps where safe to share.
Performance measurement: We measure time-to-detect, time-to-contain, and the efficacy of current controls to provide measurable improvements over time.
Pricing & engagement models
We offer flexible pricing depending on scope, complexity, and duration. Typical models include:
Fixed-price project for well-scoped, time-boxed engagements (e.g., 4–8 weeks).
Time & materials for exploratory or open-ended assessments.
Retainer-based continuous testing for organizations that require ongoing adversary emulation and frequent validation.
Contact us with your requirements for a tailored proposal and statement-of-work (SoW). We provide clear cost breakdowns and milestones in every proposal.
Case studies & success stories (redacted)
Financial services firm — stealthy phishing + lateral movement Outcome: Discovered an unprotected backups server containing sensitive customer records. SOC detection gaps were remediated and new EDR rules reduced mean time to detect from days to hours.
E‑commerce platform — cloud misconfigurations Outcome: Gained access to admin consoles via misconfigured IAM policies. We provided immediate remediation steps and an IAM least-privilege plan.
(Full case studies available under NDA.)
FAQs
Q: Will you disrupt our operations?
A: Our priority is safety — we avoid destructive actions, work within agreed windows, and exclude critical services as requested.
Q: Do you need access to source code?
A: Not necessarily. Red Teaming can be done without source code, but access to code, architecture diagrams, or CI/CD pipelines can enable deeper testing.
Q: How long does an engagement take?
A: Typical engagements run from 2–8 weeks depending on scope. We always provide a clear timeline in the SoW.
Q: Can you emulate a specific threat actor?
A: Yes — we map TTPs to MITRE ATT&CK and can emulate specific threat profiles upon request.
Q: Will you share remediation steps we can implement?
A: Yes — every finding includes prioritized remediation steps, and we can offer post-engagement support or implementation help.