AI-Powered Red Team Operations

Red team testing is the most realistic and effective way to evaluate an organisation's security posture. Where conventional penetration tests focus only on technical vulnerabilities, red team operations assess your people, processes and technology as a single whole. CoreDefence's AI-powered red team service takes that approach a step further, running adaptive attack simulations strengthened by machine learning algorithms.

Our AI engine automatically scans the target organisation's digital assets, external attack surface and open-source intelligence (OSINT) to build a comprehensive attack surface map. From that map it identifies the highest-impact attack vectors and designs multi-stage scenarios that emulate the lateral movement, privilege escalation and data exfiltration techniques real attackers use. As of 2025, our operations also incorporate LLM-based attack automation frameworks and AI-driven command-and-control (C2) simulation.

On the social engineering side, we run targeted spear phishing campaigns, QR code-based quishing attacks, deepfake-assisted vishing scenarios and physical security tests. Our AI-powered content generation engine produces highly convincing attack material tailored to the target organisation's industry, language and communication patterns. Social engineering tests conducted through corporate communication and instant messaging platforms are also within scope.

In network penetration testing we target your internal and external network segments, applying advanced techniques such as firewall evasion, network segmentation bypass, Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) attacks, Kerberoasting, AS-REP Roasting, Pass-the-Hash, Golden/Silver Ticket, DCSync and NTLM relay. Azure AD / Entra ID hybrid environment attacks, Conditional Access bypass and token theft scenarios are part of our current 2025 test scope.

In web and mobile application security testing we hunt for vulnerabilities defined by the OWASP Top 10 2025 and API Security Top 10, assess GraphQL and gRPC API security, identify Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) and business logic flaws, and test your OAuth 2.0/OIDC authentication flows. CI/CD pipeline security, secret exposure, container escape scenarios, Kubernetes RBAC bypass and cloud IAM misconfigurations are all part of the assessment.

At the end of every operation, all discovered vulnerabilities are classified with CVSS v4.0 scoring and business impact analysis. Successful attack chains are mapped visually and matched against the MITRE ATT&CK v15 matrix. We deliver an executive summary, a detailed technical report and a prioritised remediation roadmap, helping you raise your security maturity systematically.

All of our testing is aligned with MITRE ATT&CK v15, PTES, OSSTMM and OWASP Testing Guide v5 methodologies. Operations are conducted ethically, within contractual scope and in a controlled environment. Through a purple team approach we can also work alongside your defensive team, giving you a live assessment of your detection and response capability.