Red Team Operations

Modern adversaries don't limit themselves to a single attack vector—and neither should your security testing. Our Red Teaming services emulate real-world threat actors to rigorously test your organization's resilience across digital, physical, and human domains. From fully remote attacks to blended cyber-physical operations, MWGroup's Red Team engagements reveal the gaps that traditional assessments often miss.

Adversarial Emulation Services

We deliver three specialized approaches to adversarial emulation, tailored to your organization's environment and security objectives. Each engagement operates under strict rules of engagement with clearly defined attack goals.

Remote Red Team

Our Remote Red Team exercises simulate a determined external adversary targeting your organization entirely through remote channels. MWGroup employs a black box methodology, operating without prior knowledge of your environment to mirror the tactics of sophisticated attackers.

Key elements of our Remote Red Team approach:

Deployment of non-attributable command and control (C2) infrastructure to manage covert operations.
Targeted external network reconnaissance (IP ranges, exposed services, domain, and subdomain enumeration).
Advanced open-source intelligence (OSINT) to map organizational structures, personnel, and technical assets.
Evasive exploitation of internet-facing systems and social engineering of employees to gain footholds.
Lateral movement and privilege escalation to accomplish defined engagement goals if initial compromise occurs.
Wireless network and client exploitation as needed to support attack paths.

Engagements typically include up to one organization in scope, with clearly defined attack goals, while maintaining a fully covert, low-noise approach to avoid detection and test your true defensive posture.

Physical Red Team

Our Physical Red Team services emulate adversaries who seek physical access as a means to compromise your organization's assets. MWGroup's operators specialize in bypassing physical security controls, exploiting human factors, and testing the resilience of your personnel and facilities.

Physical Red Team services may involve:

Covert surveillance, pattern-of-life analysis, and reconnaissance of target facilities.
Physical intrusion attempts, including lock bypass, surreptitious entry, and facility penetration.
Social engineering to manipulate personnel and gain unauthorized access.
Deployment of covert hardware or malware implants to establish persistent network presence following physical access.

Engagements typically include one or more target facilities, with up to two operational goals defined for physical infiltration scenarios.

Remote & Physical Red Team

Our Combined Remote and Physical Red Team engagements deliver the most comprehensive simulation of advanced persistent threats, mirroring real-world actors who blend cyber operations with physical intrusion tactics.

This integrated approach allows our team to:

Exploit vulnerabilities uncovered during remote reconnaissance to facilitate physical attacks.
Use physical access to plant devices, gather sensitive intelligence, or establish network footholds for further remote operations.
Execute sophisticated, multi-vector attacks that reveal cross-domain vulnerabilities often missed by isolated security testing.

Key benefits of the combined approach:

Validates the effectiveness of security controls at the intersection of physical and digital environments.
Identifies gaps in your organization's detection and response processes.
Provides a holistic view of your attack surface, enabling targeted, effective remediation strategies.

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Of state-sponsored incidents involved hybrid attacks on both digital and physical infrastructure, such as power grids, water treatment plants, or industrial control systems

Source: 2020 study on hybrid infrastructure attacks

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Year-over-year surge in cyberattacks with physical impacts, industrial operations compromised due to targeted infrastructure disruption

Source: Waterfall 2023 Threat Report via IndustrialCyber

Engagement Details

Red Team operations are performed without defined testing windows and may occur 24/7 to simulate real-world attacker persistence. All testing is conducted under strict rules of engagement with client-approved scopes and goals.

24/7 Operational Testing: Red Team operations are performed without defined testing windows and may occur 24/7 to simulate real-world attacker persistence
Strict Rules of Engagement: All testing is conducted under strict rules of engagement and with client-approved scopes and goals
Assumed Compromise Scenarios: In cases where initial attack paths fail, MWGroup may transition the engagement to an 'assumed compromise' posture, deploying covert hardware or malware implants to continue critical testing
Controlled Information Sharing: Knowledge of testing activities and the engagement timeline is tightly controlled to preserve the integrity of the simulation
Real-World Response Testing: We encourage clients to treat any detection of Red Team activities as potential real-world breaches and to execute incident response procedures accordingly

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