Advanced Red Teaming & Adversary Simulation

Our Red Teaming services simulate advanced persistent threats to test your organization's detection and response capabilities comprehensively.

Comprehensive Red Teaming Operations

ReactiveZero's Red Teaming operations are designed to rigorously test your organization's defensive capabilities against sophisticated, multi-faceted attacks. We emulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of real-world adversaries to provide a realistic assessment of your security resilience, identify blind spots, and improve your incident response readiness. For continuous, automated adversary emulation between engagements, explore our R0 autonomous red-team appliance.

How a Red Team Operation Unfolds

Every engagement runs as a controlled adversary emulation. Here is the operation opened up phase by phase, with the moments your defenders are meant to catch us.

Operation
NIGHTJAR Classified // Operation dossier
Objective
Reach the agreed crown-jewel systems without being stopped, and show exactly where detection could have broken the chain.
Rules of engagement
  • Objectives agreed in writing
  • Production-safe, no disruption
  • Deconfliction line always open
  • Assumed-breach start optional
Operation timeline Replaying the kill chain
  1. We map your external footprint, people and technology through passive OSINT and infrastructure enumeration, building the target picture before touching a system.
    Techniques
    • T1595 · Active Scanning
    • T1589 · Gather Victim Identity Info
    • T1596 · Search Open Technical DBs
    • T1598 · Phishing for Information
    Detection opportunity
    Bursts of enumeration against internet-facing assets, and unfamiliar hosts probing your login portals.
    You receive Target dossier and attack paths
  2. We earn a first foothold the way a real adversary would: a tailored phishing lure, an exposed service, or a weak perimeter credential.
    Techniques
    • T1566 · Phishing
    • T1190 · Exploit Public-Facing App
    • T1078 · Valid Accounts
    • T1133 · External Remote Services
    Detection opportunity
    A first-seen sign-in from an unusual device or location, or a user opening a macro-enabled attachment.
    You receive A proven entry vector
  3. We establish resilient command-and-control over encrypted channels and plant persistence, so one blocked implant never ends the operation.
    Techniques
    • T1071 · Application Layer Protocol
    • T1573 · Encrypted Channel
    • T1547 · Boot or Logon Autostart
    • T1053 · Scheduled Task
    Detection opportunity
    Beaconing to newly registered domains, and unexpected autostart entries or scheduled tasks appearing on hosts.
    You receive Documented C2 tradecraft
  4. We escalate privileges, harvest credentials and pivot toward the crown jewels, mapping the trust relationships that hold your estate together.
    Techniques
    • T1003 · OS Credential Dumping
    • T1550 · Use Alternate Auth Material
    • T1021 · Remote Services
    • T1068 · Exploitation for Priv Esc
    Detection opportunity
    Credential-store access, pass-the-hash patterns, and service accounts authenticating where they never usually do.
    You receive A lateral-movement graph
  5. We reach the agreed objectives, safely demonstrate impact and exfiltration, then replay the full chain with your defenders.
    Techniques
    • T1005 · Data from Local System
    • T1567 · Exfiltration to Web Service
    • T1041 · Exfiltration over C2
    • T1531 · Account Access Removal
    Detection opportunity
    Large staging archives and egress spikes to unfamiliar cloud endpoints, tripping data-loss controls.
    You receive Attack narrative and purple-team replay

Each phase names the defensive signal your blue team is placed to catch, the same map we walk together in the debrief.

Types of Red Teaming We Offer

Assumed Breach

An assumed-breach engagement starts from the realistic premise that an attacker is already inside — through a phished laptop, a leaked credential or a malicious insider — and asks what happens next. Rather than spending the budget getting in, we begin with a foothold and focus on what matters: how far an adversary can move, what they can reach, and whether your team detects and responds in time. Mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, it is an efficient way to test detection and response and suits TIBER-NL and DORA TLPT scenarios.

Full-Spectrum Operations

A full-spectrum red team operation emulates a real adversary from start to finish. We begin with external reconnaissance and open-source intelligence, gain initial access through phishing, exposed services or physical and social engineering, then establish command-and-control and work towards agreed objectives such as reaching a crown-jewel system or dataset. Throughout, we test whether your people, processes and technology detect and respond. Every action is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and safely deconflicted with your team, producing a realistic measure of resilience for TIBER-NL and DORA TLPT programmes.

Purple Teaming

Purple teaming turns an adversarial test into a collaborative one. Our red team executes attack techniques side by side with your blue team or SOC, so defenders can watch each step, confirm whether their tooling generated an alert, and tune detections on the spot. We work methodically through the MITRE ATT&CK techniques most relevant to your threat model, measuring detection and response coverage as we go. You finish with a clear map of what you catch, what you miss and concrete, validated improvements to your logging, alerting and playbooks.

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