Cybercrime Red Team
Run the criminal’s playbook against your own journeys before they do.
The cybercrime red team tests whether your organization still makes the right trust decisions under attacker pressure across onboarding, login, recovery, and payments. It is adversary emulation pointed at the customer journey instead of the corporate network.
Every scenario is drawn from a live criminal operation observed by Optical Intelligence, mapped to your customer journey, executed under explicit authorization, and retained as expected-versus-observed evidence. As operations change their TTPs, the scenarios change with them.
From live operation to authorized test.
The cybercrime red team maps observed criminal behavior to a defined customer journey and defense, scopes an authorized test plan, and retains the evidence required to judge the result.
It begins with the methodology of a real operation: the lure, the prerequisite the actor must satisfy, the cash-out path. Then it identifies the trust decision that should stop it.
SynapseThreat uses a behavior-based methodology informed by the MITRE Fight Fraud Framework, powered by the same GPU-accelerated multimodal AI (vision-language models, computer vision, and calibrated risk models) that renders and correlates criminal infrastructure at the pace of cybercrime.
Scope. Authorize. Test. Compare.
Scope
Begin with observed cybercriminal behavior. Define what is tested and how the result is judged.
Authorize
Bind the plan to an explicit approval. No test runs outside the approved authorization boundary.
Test
Execute in an explicitly approved synthetic, sandbox, or staging environment, against the exact behavior the operation uses.
Compare
Retain expected and observed outcomes together. State what the evidence supports and what remains uncertain.
- The observed criminal behavior
- The prerequisite the actor must satisfy
- The customer journey
- The trust boundary
- The named defensive system
- The known defense configuration
- The expected behavior of the defense
- The evidence required to judge the result
- An explicit target
- An approved environment
- A named owner
- A defined scope
- A time window
- A resource budget
- A kill switch
- An evidence-retention plan
Execution stays inside the explicitly approved synthetic, sandbox, or staging boundary.
No test runs outside the approved authorization boundary.
- What happened
- What did not happen
- What evidence supports the result
- What evidence contradicts the result
- What remains uncertain
- What should be tested next
The surface criminals actually target.
Criminal operations do not attack your firewall. They attack the moments your organization decides to trust someone: a new account, a returning login, a recovery request, a payment, a points transfer. The cybercrime red team tests those trust decisions where they live: in the customer journey.
Coverage spans web and web3 alike. Optical Intelligence renders wallet drainers, approval phishing, and fake dApps, and correlates supported on-chain evidence (wallets, flows, and infrastructure) with the web-side campaign, so the journeys where value moves through wallets are tested with the same discipline.
- Onboarding and account creation
- Login and session trust
- Account recovery and support paths
- New-device enrollment
- Payments and beneficiary creation
- Promotions, points transfer, and redemption
- Credential harvesting and MFA interception
- Session replay from new devices
- Mule-account staging and cash-out paths
- Wallet drainers, approval phishing, and fake dApps
- Drainer kits and scam infrastructure
- Automation and evasion observed in live operations
The cybercrime red team is not:
Customer defense information is separately governed and tenant-isolated. It is used for the authorized test it supports and nothing else.
Cybercrime red team, answered.
An engagement scopes scenarios from live criminal operations to your customer journeys, executes them under explicit authorization in an approved environment, and delivers expected-versus-observed evidence with the defense decisions it supports. Scenarios regenerate as the underlying operations change their TTPs.
Onboarding, login and session trust, account recovery, new-device enrollment, payments and beneficiary creation, and promotion, points-transfer, and redemption journeys: anywhere your organization makes a trust decision a criminal operation could pressure.
From operations SynapseThreat observes directly. Optical Intelligence renders and correlates phishing kits, credential harvesters, wallet drainers, and scam infrastructure with multimodal AI, then converts the observed behavior, from lure to cash-out, into ready-to-run test scenarios.
Yes. Every test is bound to an explicit authorization: an approved target and environment, a named owner, a defined scope, a time window, a resource budget, a kill switch, and an evidence-retention plan. No test runs outside the approved boundary.
Penetration tests start from your infrastructure. The cybercrime red team starts from the criminal operation, the journeys and trust decisions it actually targets, and tests whether your defenses hold against that observed behavior, with evidence retained for every expected-versus-observed outcome.
Bring us the journey you want tested.
Name the customer journey or defense you want tested. We map the live criminal behavior that targets it, scope the authorization boundary and telemetry, and run the test. Then we hand you the expected-versus-observed evidence and the defense decision it supports.
08 / Briefing
Bring us the cybercrime operation your current tools cannot fully explain.
Request a briefing to examine an account takeover, platform abuse, or loyalty abuse operation, or to test your defenses with a cybercrime red team engagement.
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