TIBER-EU Red Teaming

You stand up a small White Team who know the test is happening and control it. We agree the critical functions in scope, the rules of engagement, the legal cover, and the flags that count as success. For a formal test your authority’s TIBER Cyber Team joins here to validate scope and process. Nothing touches production until this is signed.

Scoping the critical functions

We work out which systems, if breached, would actually threaten your operations or your customers: the payment rail, the core banking platform, the trade settlement flow, the customer database. Those become the targets. Everything else is a route, not a goal.

This has two halves. First, threat intelligence: a provider builds a Targeted Threat Intelligence report describing the specific actors likely to attack your firm, their tooling and their favored techniques, referenced to MITRE ATT&CK. Then the red team turns that intelligence into attack scenarios and executes them against the live estate.

Threat intelligence

Good intelligence is what separates TIBER from a generic red team. We ground each scenario in what a named category of attacker really does against European finance, so the test rehearses a plausible breach rather than a textbook one.

Red team execution

We attempt initial access, establish a foothold, escalate, move laterally and reach for the flags, staying quiet enough to test whether your monitoring catches us. Tooling is a mix of custom implants, Cobalt Strike or Sliver for command and control, and hands-on tradecraft; the emphasis is on realistic operator behavior, not noisy scanning.

We stop, come clean to the blue team, and walk them through every step in a replay. You get the red team test report, the blue team writes its own account, and together you produce a remediation plan and a test summary the authority reviews. Attestation of the process, where required, is handled with your TIBER Cyber Team.

Spear-phishing against named staff, pretext calls, and payload delivery that beats mail filtering. Most breaches we replay start with one convincing email, not an exploit.

We map your internet-facing surface, hunt for exposed admin panels, forgotten VPN gateways, leaked credentials, and misconfigured AWS, Azure or GCP tenants that hand over a foothold without a single phish.

Once inside, we go after Active Directory, Kerberos abuse, credential harvesting, and the trust relationships between systems that let a low-value box reach a high-value one. This is where detection usually fails, so it is where we spend our time.

The final act is proving impact on a critical function without causing harm: showing we could move funds, exfiltrate the customer database, or halt a settlement process, then stopping short of the damage.

A full narrative of the attack path, each technique tagged to MITRE ATT&CK, with the evidence, the detection gaps, and a CVSS-scored breakdown of the technical findings that made the path possible.

A prioritized fix list you can hand straight to your teams, plus the purple-team session where we rerun the attack with your defenders watching, so remediation is understood, not just documented. A retest of the fixes is included.

Where a formal, regulator-recognized test is required, the process is owned by your competent authority and its TIBER Cyber Team. We slot in as the red team provider and coordinate with them throughout, delivering to the framework so the outcome is one the supervisor accepts.

Even outside a formal mandate, the results feed your ISO 27001 risk treatment and give your board defensible evidence that controls work against a real adversary, not a checklist.

An operator phishes a member of the finance or treasury team, lands on their workstation, and pivots toward the payment approval system. The flag is proving we could alter or authorize a transfer. This scenario tests both technical controls and the human process around money movement, which is where fraud losses actually happen.

We find a forgotten VPN concentrator, an internet-facing management interface, or a set of leaked credentials from a past breach, and use it to get inside without touching a single employee. Firms are often surprised how much of their perimeter they had lost track of.

Many financial breaches arrive through a supplier or a managed service provider with standing access. Where scope allows, we model that trust relationship and show what an attacker who compromised your vendor could reach inside your network.