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Cybersecurity Red Team

Red Team services that prove your defenses hold against the attacks most likely to arise.

Cybersecurity Adversarial Simulation

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Proven red teamers nationwide, simulating real cyber attacks without the real damage.

Multi-Vector Assault

We chain network exploitation, social engineering, and physical intrusion into a single coordinated operation. The same way nation state actors and ransomware crews operate today.

Stealth & Evasion

Our red team specializes in bypassing EDR, evading SOC detection, and maintaining persistence. If your blue team can’t find us, we’ll show you exactly why.

Measurable Business Impact

Every Raxis red team engagement goes past “access gained” to demonstrate real consequences: data exfiltration, operational disruption, and domain dominance, mapped to business risk your board will understand.

Red Team: The Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Attack Simulation

Raxis red teaming engagements go wherever adversaries go. We chain findings across networks, applications, identities, and physical access to demonstrate complete attack paths. The scope reflects how breaches unfold.

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Full Attack Surface Coverage

  • Networks and infrastructure (perimeter, internal, cloud, segmentation)
  • Applications and APIs (web, mobile, custom enterprise)
  • People (phishing, vishing, smishing, pretexting, in-person)
  • Physical security (badge cloning, tailgating, lock bypass)
  • Wireless networks (WPA cracking, rogue AP detection)
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP misconfigurations)
  • Identity and access (Active Directory, Okta, AzureAD)

Want continuous red team coverage instead of annual engagements? See Raxis Attack PTaaS

A Red Team Tests More Than Your Defenses.
It Tests Your Defenders.

A red team engagement does more than probe your security stack. It puts your blue team under real pressure. While our operators work to reach your most critical assets without being caught, your defenders are measured on everything that happens next: what they detect, how fast they respond, and what slips through unnoticed.

Detection: Do the Alerts Actually Fire?

We emulate a real adversary across the MITRE ATT&CK kill chain, moving quietly the way an actual intruder would. Every action is a live test of whether your SIEM, EDR, and SOC surface it or miss it entirely. You learn which techniques trip an alert and which ones sail straight through.

Response: From Alert to Action

Spotting an attacker is only half the job. When your blue team does catch us, we measure what happens next: whether the right playbook kicks in, whether it escalates to the right people, and whether your incident response holds up under the pressure of a live intrusion instead of a tabletop scenario.

Containment: How Fast Can You Evict an Attacker?

Dwell time is everything. We track how long we operate before your team detects, contains, and removes us, giving you a real mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-respond against a determined human adversary, not a number from a vendor brochure.

Coverage: Find the Blind Spots First

Every engagement ends with a map of which attacker techniques your defenses caught and which they did not. That ATT&CK-aligned coverage view shows you exactly where to tune detections, close logging gaps, and focus your investment, before a real attacker finds the same holes.

Why Raxis for Red Teaming

We’re the team organizations call after another vendor gave them a clean report.

The Raxis Difference

Most penetration testing firms run automated scans. Raxis runs real attacks. Our red team penetration testing services are delivered by U.S.-based engineers with OSCP, OSCE, GPEN, and CISSP certifications who manually exploit, chain, and pivot through your environment the way actual adversaries do. AI augmented where it helps, human led where it matters.

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Real Time Tracking

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Raxis One gives you live visibility into your Red Team engagement as it unfolds. Risk details, attack storyboards, and remediation strategies, all in the portal.

We Publish Our Own CVEs

Raxis researchers find and publish new CVEs in widely used software. That original research feeds straight into your red team engagement, so we test you with attack techniques most firms have never seen, drawn from vulnerabilities we found ourselves.

Built for Compliance

Our red team methodology aligns with NIST 800-115 and the penetration testing requirements in PCI DSS. Every finding is documented to drop straight into your compliance and audit evidence.

Private by Default

Raxis holds SOC 2 Type II for how we handle client data through every stage of an engagement. AI powered tools are optional and used only with your approval, and when we use them your data is never exposed to third parties or used to train external models.

Speak to a Raxis Customer

All of our engagements run under NDA, and many CISOs prefer not to name their security partner in someone else’s marketing. Ask for references. We’ll connect you with named customers in your industry who can speak to our work.

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  • “After a major, big name pentesting firm found nothing significant, we brought in Raxis for a red team engagement. They gained domain admin access and demonstrated how an attacker could exfiltrate our most sensitive data. Worth every penny.“
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Red Team Tradecraft in Action

Each screenshot below comes from a Raxis red team engagement. Custom payload encoding. Kernel exploit chains. Multi GPU hash cracking. Customer data extracted from production databases. This is the technical depth a manual red team penetration test delivers.

msfvenom used as a proof of concept to demonstrate exploitation of a host

Custom Payload Development

Stock Metasploit payloads carry signatures defenders recognize. Raxis red team engineers craft custom encoded variants using msfvenom’s iterative x64/xor encoder, generating reverse shells that bypass signature based detection.

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Privilege Escalation

Kernel exploits, misconfigured permissions, and credential abuse are how adversaries elevate from initial access to root. The screenshot shows Raxis exploiting a Dirty Pipe technique to write directly to /etc/passwd, gaining root by abusing a kernel vulnerability.

Hashcat multi-GPU password cracking during a red team penetration test

GPU-Accelerated Password Cracking

Raxis runs multi-GPU Hashcat rigs against captured NTLMv2 hashes, password-protected files, and offline domain credentials. The screenshot shows live cracking against NetNTLMv2 hashes with an 11-day estimated runtime. Real attackers don’t quit when an estimate is long. They wait, and they win when defenders rely on weak passwords.

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Database Extraction & PII Exposure

Raxis demonstrates real impact by safely extracting sensitive data. No actual records leave your network, but the proof is undeniable. The screenshot shows a query against a customer database returning logins, SSNs, and personal information. This is what a breach actually looks like. These are real records an attacker could sell, leak, or hold for ransom.

The Raxis Red Team Methodology

The Raxis red team penetration testing methodology follows the MITRE ATT&CK framework and aligns with NIST 800-115. Every engagement progresses through eight phases, from initial reconnaissance through persistent access and data exfiltration.

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Reconnaissance

OSINT, dark web monitoring, technical profiling We map your attack surface from public sources before any exploit.

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Initial Access

Spear phishing, credential stuffing, exploit chains We breach perimeter defenses using techniques real adversaries deploy.

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Privilege Escalation

Kernel exploits, misconfigurations, credential abuse Once inside, we elevate to admin privileges to expand reach.

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Lateral Movement

Pass-the-hash, RDP pivoting, AD enumeration We move through your environment to access critical systems.

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Persistence & Stealth

Backdoors, scheduled tasks, EDR evasion. We maintain access while avoiding SOC detection, and we document exactly how.

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Action on Objectives

Domain admin, data targeting, system control We achieve the objectives a real attacker would prioritize.

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Data Exfiltration Simulation

Safe simulated theft, no actual data leaves your network We prove what an adversary could steal without removing anything.

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Reporting & Remediation

MITRE-mapped findings, kill chain storyboards, remediation guidance We deliver actionable reports plus retesting after fixes.

Raxis Hack Stories

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Our stories are based on real events encountered by Raxis engineers; however, some details have been altered or omitted to protect our customers’ identities.

From Wi-Fi Handshake to Gift Card Vault

Raxis set out to test the defenses of a major national retailer through full-scope adversary simulation: think like an attacker, move like an attacker, document the actual extent of the company’s vulnerabilities. The engagement began quietly. Armed with Aircrack-ng, our pentesters focused on the retailer’s wireless network. During a routine handshake process, we captured the network’s encryption key. Within hours, our Hashcat rig had cracked it open. First entry point into their environment, established.

Once inside the wireless network, we shifted to internal penetration testing. Using CrackMapExec, we found a system still protected by its default password. Default credentials on a production system are the equivalent of leaving the keys in the ignition.

Late into the night, our team fed the coveted domain admin hash into Raxis’ powerful Hashcat cracking rig. By morning, we had the credentials in hand. When we returned to the client’s environment, the validation was instant — we now had full control of the entire Active Directory domain, with the same privileges as their own IT administrators.

Deep in the environment, we uncovered something with far more than symbolic value: a custom application and database containing store-branded gift cards and PINs. Even more alarming, we had the capability to generate new cards on demand. For a criminal actor, this would be an open vault. For the retailer, it was a wake-up call about the potential financial and reputational impact of weak security controls.

This Raxis Red Team penetration testing engagement wasn’t a scripted exercise. It was a full-spectrum test designed to mimic a determined adversary, combining wireless penetration testing, privilege escalation, and targeted data access to reveal how a single overlooked control can cascade into total compromise. By blending human-led expertise with AI-driven efficiency, Raxis shows clients exactly how attackers could breach their defenses — and gives them the insight to prevent it from happening in the real world.

Red Teaming FAQ

A red team assessment simulates a real attacker with specific objectives. We test your ability to detect, respond to, and contain a sophisticated adversary across multiple attack vectors.

Adversary simulation replicates the tactics, techniques, and procedures of real-world threat actors to test your organization’s end-to-end defenses, including people, processes, and technology. Raxis uses the MITRE ATT&CK framework to ensure every engagement reflects current threat intelligence.

Raxis delivers full-scope red team assessments including network exploitation, social engineering penetration testing, physical penetration testing, cloud and infrastructure attacks, data exfiltration simulation, and purple team engagements.

No. We establish strict rules of engagement and maintain constant communication. All testing is conducted safely with fail-safes to prevent operational disruption.

Typically 4–12 weeks depending on scope and objectives.

Yes. We offer ongoing red team services through our Raxis One PTaaS platform for continuous adversary simulation and defense validation.

Yes. Purple teaming combines red team attack execution with blue team collaboration, improving detection and response capabilities in real time.

We’ve conducted red team operations for financial services, healthcare, government, defense contractors, critical infrastructure, technology companies, and more.

Yes. Our team holds OSCP, OSCE, GPEN, CEH, CISSP, and more. Average experience is 15+ years in offensive security.

Our engagements are limited to a defined timeframe. We report everything accomplished during that window along with recommendations for strengthening your defenses.

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